I've just installed CentOS 5.4 on an IBM server with a BCM5709 network adapter, and can't get networking to work. It looks like an appropriate driver (bnx2) is installed, lspci and the system log return sensible info on the unit, there are no specific error message anywhere, but I get "no link present" when I try to activate the device. In other words, I see essentially the same behaviour as when the network cable is missing, but I've tried several cables, connection points etc. and also get the appropriate indicator lamps etc. so I'm quite sure the connection is good.
Does anyone have any idea what may be wrong? If not, have any of you lot got networking to work with a similar setup?
Some extracts from the system log are included below...
Thanks,
- Toralf
--- Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.9.3 (March 17, 2009) Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.0[A] -> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem 92000000, IRQ 169, node addr 00215edbc384 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.1[B] -> GSI 40 (level, low) -> IRQ 106 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem 94000000, IRQ 106, node addr 00215edbc386 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 114 [ ... ] Oct 23 22:12:53 localhost kernel: bnx2: eth0: using MSIX Oct 23 22:12:53 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
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