Debian Lenny on R710

[Cory Meyer]

Issue has been resolved:

I ended up resolving the issue by compiling a 2.6.26-6 vanilla kernel from
kernel.org with the stock .config from my existing 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel and
using the firmware-bnx2_0.16_all.deb from Debian/Sid.

Earlier attempts included compiling the 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 kernels from
Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04 though wasn't able to compile the aufs or squashfs
modules against these two kernels.  I had really wanted the 2.6.28 kernel to
work with it's EXT4 support though my main requirement at this time is with
Netboot via the Debian-Live project.

Thanks for the help,

Cory



On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Cory Meyer <cory.meyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone else ran into issues with Linux on the R710.   I'm running
> single 2.0x4 core proc and the Broadcom 5709 NICx4.  I have no problems with
> my Dell 2950 with the Broadcom 5708 NICs.
>
> The error that dmesg shows when loading the bnx2 driver is:
>     Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.7.5 (April 29,
> 2008)
>    bnx2 0000:01:00.0 Cannot find PCI device base address, aborting
>
>
> I'm assuming that this something PCI related since the PERC6/i controller
> isn't being recognized either.  To get around this I tried the basic
> combination of kernel arguments pci=noacpi, acpi=noirq, pnpacpi=off, noapic
> and nolapic with no change.
>
> Any ideas?   I'm currently running Debian Lenny with the 2.6.26-2-amd64
> kernel.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cory
>
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