Has anyone managed to get CentOS 6 x86_64 running on a server with a Broadcom NetXtremeII BCM5709 network adaptor? If so have you seen any issues with the network freezing? On booting everything works fine then the network will just stop - can't ping anything. If we manually restart the network service it will run again for a few seconds/minutes before hanging again. We have even installed the latest bnx2 drivers (netxtreme2-6.2.23) as supplied by the server manufacturer - problem remains. Any ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, stwe22@comcast.net wrote:
Has anyone managed to get CentOS 6 x86_64 running on a server with a Broadcom NetXtremeII BCM5709 network adaptor? If so have you seen any issues with the network freezing?
I haven't tried CentOS 6 yet, but I have had this problem with CentOS 5. Try this in /etc/modprobe.conf:
options bnx2 disable_msi=1
and reboot. This is a fix on all of the systems that I have tried it on.
Steve
Steve Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, stwe22@comcast.net wrote:
Has anyone managed to get CentOS 6 x86_64 running on a server with a Broadcom NetXtremeII BCM5709 network adaptor? If so have you seen any issues with the network freezing?
<snip> I've got a BCM5761, running w/ no trouble. Don't know differences, but I think that's a tg3 driver.
mark
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