[CentOS] CentOS 4.4 Strange hang on a poweredge 2900.
Damon L. Chesser
damon at damtek.com
Thu Dec 28 18:08:51 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 10:22 -0800, Peter Serwe wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > I surmised the meaning of the -a switch by running it and I also did the
> > ifconfig --help and found, like you, it was listed but no meaning given.
> > I was just baffled by a switch not listed. Learn something new every
> > day.
> >
> > Have you checked support.dell.com for a nick driver? I don't know about
> > the linux versions as I have not worked on Dell linux boxes, but the
> > windows versions have updated drivers there for all the components like
> > TOE (not applicable to you as the TOE feature does not work in linux).
> > Perhaps you just need an updated driver for the Gigabyte NIC?
> >
>
> Checked for an updated driver, didn't see anything. Swapped in the
> Intel pro1000/100/10,
> didn't see a change in the behavior. Going to try the x86_64 version,
> and if that doesn't
> work, probably just go back and run it on FreeBSD. Not to say that I
> can't be bothered
> to figure out what the problem is, I'm just at a loss and not getting a
> response out of
> linux-poweredge yet either. We'll see, the jury's still out :)
>
> Peter
Peter,
Do you have Gold support? Those guys are very good at what they do. If
you do, I would think that the linux guys at Dell know the answer to
this question. If you do not, perhaps the basic support guys will know
the answer?
>
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