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)