Hi I would get the proliant support pack/smartstart and check that you are either using the bnx2 of tg3 drivers. You should have one or the other loaded. I would also check that you have the latest system firmware. Thanks Richard > Hi folks, > > I've just spent about six hours messing around with an HP DL585 G2 > server trying to get CentOS to go. > > This box is a dual-CPU with dual cores and 10GB of RAM total. > According to the datasheet, the POST screens, and the BIOS, it has > the Broadcom embedded NICs in it. > > The problem boils down to the installed OS (4.4 x86_64) not seeing > the NICs. If you do an lspci on the system after installing from > local media the only unknown device is one of the built-in hardware > health monitors. And since the NICs don't show up in the pci table, > there's nothing for the drivers I downloaded from the HP website to > hook to. > > What's interesting is that in the process of trying to get this thing > going I've installed two old (2002 vintage) 3Com 905cxl PCI cards in > the system -- again, the BIOS (or whatever the built in hardware > diagnostics program is called) sees them, but the running OS does not. > > This implies I've done or missed something trivially stupid, and > after banging my head against this box and the monumentally unhelpful > HP "documentation" I was wondering if someone had been down this road > before. > > Any insights would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- > /\oo/\ > / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | > dave at xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >