RE: RH7.2 & Broadcom 5700 NICs

["Robert L. Felt" <bob paradigm-pubs com>]

Hello Ray, and thank you for your reply.

> 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. 

Did you use the Server Assistant Disk to begin the install?  The instructions 
I have for supplying the Perc3-Di PCI values do not use the Server 
Assistant but a direct load from the RH CD in expert noprobe mode 
followed by an Add Device entry where the PCI parameters are manually 
entered.  However, in a prior install where I used the Dell instructions and 
Server Disk, the NICS were recognized and properly loaded.

I'm wondering if a fresh install that used the Server Assistant and another 
approach to configuring the accraid driver  might not solve this problem.
 
> 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

The one downloaded from Dell is: bcm5700-2.2.22.i386.rpm


> What has the install placed in:
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg.ethN

There is no ifcfg.eth[0,1] in that directory.

Of course, I can't be sure of this but this seems to me like a mistake I have 
made in the installation process.

Bob

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