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? > >