[CentOS] HP DL585 G2 -- no nics

[John R Pierce]

John Hinton wrote:
>
>>   
> Have you run the HP/Compaq SmartStart CD? It lets you configure system 
> BIOSs. If this was a used machine, it is possible that the previous 
> owner may have disabled the onboard nics.. perhaps to run some other 
> hardware in its place.
>
> The CDs are available at hp.com. Try to pick one that is dated about 
> the same as the machine you are working with, or you might waste a lot 
> of download time to find the version is too new.



fyi, the DL585 G2 is quite new.

I have two DL585 running quad opteron 850 (single core 2.4Ghz), one is 
running RHEL3, the other RHEL4, both x86_64, I don't recall havinng to 
install any special drivers or anything.

However, the G2 is the 2nd generation of this 4-socket server, and 
likely has newer NICs.   HP should have RHEL4 drivers which should work 
just fine with CentOS4 kernels..  I find HPs support of Linux is much 
better than that other major vendor of x86 hardware with the 4 letter name.


on my DL585 (non-G2) boxes, `lspci` lists...

02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
02:06.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)