Re: RH7.2 & Broadcom 5700 NICs

[Ray Dart <rdart picdar com>]

Hi Robert

I installed 7.2 on Dell 2650s a while ago, I was lucky, I had no problems. I
loaded the updated drivers for the bcm cards from one of the two OpenManage
disks supplied by Dell (Server Assistant, I think) - these were "ordinary"
rpms. 

I think this is what I loaded (can't be certain now - I have since moved
these boxes to AS2.1 and deleted my old 7.2 build documentation)

    /Pexxxx/Linux/dsa/72/bcm5700-2.0.37-1.i386.rpm


Anyway, it appears that the correct drivers are being mod'd into the kernel.

What has the install placed in:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg.ethN


?

Ray Dart
Picdar












on 31/10/02 9:32 PM, Robert L. Felt at bob paradigm-pubs com wrote:

> Hello,
> Here is the situation:
> I've installed the rpm's for the Broadcom NICs in the Dell 2650 as downloaded
> from Dell. The rpm is labelled for RH7.2.  I'm configuring RH7.2.
> 1. The Gnome Hardware Browser sees the BCOM5700 but the device is not
> available in the list of adapters in the Gui network configuration (whether
> from 
> neat in a shell or from the GUI).   After "insmod 5700" the Hardware device
> MAC address probe in  Network Configuration finds a MAC address (after
> reboot it does not).  But the configuration dialog cannot complete
> successfully 
> because it cannot initialize the NIC.   There is a traceback, included at the
> end 
> of this email.
> 2. Grpm shows the package as installed.
> 3. "insmod bcm5700"  reports using the bcm5700.o
> 4.  The connection lights are on indicating the presence of the cards and
> proper 
> cabling
> 5. No new hardware is found on reboot. The bcm5700 is in the kudzu/pcitable
> but running kudzu produces no result.
> 6. ifconfig eth0 address 192.168.0.118 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask
> 255.255.255.0. produces "host name lookup failure" (the IP and machine name
> are in /etc/hosts, resolve.conf has the IP of a working name server.
> This is my first linux install and I have clearly not groked something. Things
> went OK loading drivers for the PREC3-Di using "expert noprobe" mode but
> that method of installation does not find the BCM5700's.
> Any help would be appreciated, including a guru near to Brookline MA who
> would like to do a day or two consulting on the set-up of this system.
> Bob Felt
> Traceback =
> [root localhost tmp]# neat
> Copying /etc/hosts to default profile.
> Copying /etc/resolv.conf to default profile.
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/libglade.py", line 28, in __call__
> ret = apply(self.func, a)
> File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 358, in on_applyButton_clicked
> self.save()
> File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 242, in save
> self.saveHardware()
> File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 253, in saveHardware
> hardwarelist.save()
> File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-
> network/netconfpkg/NCHardwareList.py", line 250, in save
> modules.write()
> File "/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 981, in write
> self[key] = self.vars[key]
> File "/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 933, in
> __setitem__
> findexp = '[\t ]*' + key + '[\t ]+' + varname + '[\t ]+'
> TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Robert L. Felt                                          Brookline MA 02445
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