On 8/17/2011 9:59 AM, lists-centos wrote:
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Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 01:33:39 PM +0000 From: lists-centos To: William Warrenhescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] hardware isues
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Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 06:43:24 AM -0400 From: William Warrenhescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com To: lists-centos Subject: Re: [CentOS] hardware isues
On 8/13/2011 9:40 PM, lists-centos wrote:
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Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011 09:06:51 PM -0400 From: William Warrenhescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
I have a broadcom bcm5722 and a dual intel pro/1000 pt nic in a dell t110. The setup sees the cards and i put them into automatic mode. After the install no cards are detected at all. Astaro 8.01 detects and utilizes all of these cards just fine. I have also tried ubuntu server 10.04 lts and they work fine. I'm curious if this is a bug with Centos 6?
I have a new T310 with what I suspect has the same intel dual NIC
- the machine is off at the moment and the order detail just
says:
On-Board Dual Gigabit Network Adapter [430-2008]that I installed centos 6.0 on last week. I only configured first port and it worked fine. The install set up a stub ifcfg-eth1 which looked fine too, but I haven't configured it yet to confirm that it works as expected.
- Richardhow did your testing go? I've reburned and md5ed multiple times. I just cannot get cent6 to work on this machine. ubuntu 10.05lts works flawlessly.
I installed centos6.0 on a second new Dell T310 yesterday with no problems. I'm doing net installs from a local repository so do the network setup at that point, assigning a static (ipv4) ipnumber. I'm given the choice of NIC, and in both cases have selected the first one. I don't touch the networking stuff after that point in the install, and it all works fine. The /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file is fully populated. The eth1 file has stub information.
The card on the second machine is a Broadcom (haven't brought the first t310 back up yet to confirm its card) -- below are the details from dmesg from the last reboot.
Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.0.8-j15 (Feb 15, 2010) bnx2 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 bnx2 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 bnx2 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw bnx2 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem da000000, IRQ 16, node addr 78:2b:cb:3d:08:98 alloc irq_desc for 17 on node -1 alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 bnx2 0000:02:00.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 bnx2 0000:02:00.1: setting latency timer to 64 bnx2 0000:02:00.1: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw bnx2 0000:02:00.1: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem dc000000, IRQ 17, node addr 78:2b:cb:3d:08:99
-----------------------A couple of years ago I had trouble with a RealTek card and found that the kernel didn't have (working) firmware support for it. In that case I was able to get the necessary driver and would load it after the machine came up. The next kernel update or two had the issue fixed.
I was just looking at the message on the list "[CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up" and it got me wondering. Are you configuring the network at any point in the install process? With previous versions I seem to remember the network configuration step as being obvious. With 6 it isn't. Because I configure eth0 as part of the net install setup I skip the "Configure Network" box, but it's rather subtle and easily missed if you haven't already done the network setup.
- Richard
First time I didn't...the subsequent times I did. I tried setting them as dhcp to no avail. I then tried static. I'll try one more time if it doesn't work i'll have to stick with ubuntu...