Re: RH7.2 & Broadcom 5700 NICs

[Ray Dart <rdart picdar com>]

Robert

In haste

No, I didn't use the Server Assistant disk to begin the install. I haven't
had a lot of luck with this (I'll share my experiences later if you wish,
they are well documented!)

The PERC drivers loaded fine from the RH disks and, at that time at least, I
think they were considered OK. I didn't look for updated drivers. I didn't
use expert mode for the install, so hence I didn't need/wasn't able to
install anything special for the PERC. (I have had to do this with other
boxes, notably Compaq, but not with Dell.)

The NICs were also correctly recognised and installed, as I said, but I
found updated/recommended drivers on the Server Assistant Disk, so I loaded
them.

These are obviously not compiled in but insmod/modprobed into the kernel.

Not sure if any of this REALLY helps.

Do you have an ifcfg.ethN anywhere relevant in the structure?


Ray Dart
Picdar















on 1/11/02 4:38 PM, Robert L. Felt at bob paradigm-pubs com wrote:

> 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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