On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:53 -0400, William Warren wrote: > Disable kudzu? > OR ... broadcom has some tg3 drivers. maybe also a BIOS update for the motherboard. > fredex wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've installed Centos 4.4 on a machine at work (it's a HP Proliant DL-320 G2 > > rackmout server that serves my desktop). > > > > In recent days (Centos 4.4 has only been installed for a little over a > > week), like, since Wed or Thu last week, every time I reboot Kudzu wants > > to remove the network adaptors then reinstall them and breaks the network. > > > > I've gone to the point of disabling one of the network ports in the BIOS > > (since I only use one of them anyway), and at first it worked when I > > rebooted, after doing the obligatory net configuration. > > > > Then the next time I rebooted Kudzu again wanted to remove and reinstall > > the network and it again didn't work after the reboot. > > > > Today I had to reboot again (because X went nutso and I lost my mouse > > pointer--I know, a reboot is overkill, don't remind me) and once again it > > broke the network when it rebooted. The network config GUI applet could > > not activate the net, it kept complaining that the MAC address of the > > adapter was not the one it expected. I removed (as the previous time) > > all the NETWORK items from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and rebooted again, > > after which it came up. > > > > But I fully expect it to be broken yet again when I reboot next time. > > > > This machine ran RHEL WS 2.1 for something like 3 years and never had > > this kind of trouble, even with both ports enabled in the BIOS. I always > > used the tg3 driver that came with Linux, not the driver that HP offers. > > > > The only RPM I've installed that I got from HP is the one that installs > > "hpasm", because that's the one that turns the fans from "screaming jet > > engine" into "low roar". > > > > (this system contains a dozen or so small fans, all of which rotate at a > > gazillion rpm, all not quite the same speed, so you get a dozen slightly > > different pitches, causing heterodyning and the resultant throbbing > > along with the screaming if you don't use the hpasm module.) > > > > Suggestions please? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060913/c5686526/attachment-0005.sig>