On 8/17/2011 9:59 AM, lists-centos wrote: > > ------------ Original Message ------------ >> Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 01:33:39 PM +0000 >> From: lists-centos >> To: William Warren<hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] hardware isues >> >> >> >> ------------ Original Message ------------ >>> Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 06:43:24 AM -0400 >>> From: William Warren<hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> >>> To: lists-centos >>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] hardware isues >>> >>> On 8/13/2011 9:40 PM, lists-centos wrote: >>>> ------------ Original Message ------------ >>>>> Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011 09:06:51 PM -0400 >>>>> From: William >>>>> Warren<hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> >>>>> >>>>> I have a broadcom bcm5722 and a dual intel pro/1000 pt nic in a >>>>> dell t110. The setup sees the cards and i put them into >>>>> automatic mode. After the install no cards are detected at >>>>> all. Astaro 8.01 detects and utilizes all of these cards just >>>>> fine. I have also tried ubuntu server 10.04 lts and they work >>>>> fine. I'm curious if this is a bug with Centos 6? >>>> I have a new T310 with what I suspect has the same intel dual NIC >>>> - the machine is off at the moment and the order detail just >>>> says: >>>> >>>> On-Board Dual Gigabit Network Adapter [430-2008] >>>> >>>> that I installed centos 6.0 on last week. I only configured first >>>> port and it worked fine. The install set up a stub ifcfg-eth1 >>>> which looked fine too, but I haven't configured it yet to confirm >>>> that it works as expected. >>>> >>>> >>>> - Richard >>>> >>>> >>> how did your testing go? I've reburned and md5ed multiple times. >>> I just cannot get cent6 to work on this machine. ubuntu 10.05lts >>> works flawlessly. >> I installed centos6.0 on a second new Dell T310 yesterday with no >> problems. I'm doing net installs from a local repository so do the >> network setup at that point, assigning a static (ipv4) ipnumber. >> I'm given the choice of NIC, and in both cases have selected the >> first one. I don't touch the networking stuff after that point in >> the install, and it all works fine. The >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file is fully populated. >> The eth1 file has stub information. >> >> The card on the second machine is a Broadcom (haven't brought the >> first t310 back up yet to confirm its card) -- below are the >> details from dmesg from the last reboot. >> >> >> Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.0.8-j15 (Feb >> 15, 2010) >> bnx2 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 >> bnx2 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 >> bnx2 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting >> bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw >> bnx2 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting >> bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw >> eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express >> found at mem da000000, IRQ 16, node addr 78:2b:cb:3d:08:98 >> alloc irq_desc for 17 on node -1 >> alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 >> bnx2 0000:02:00.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 >> bnx2 0000:02:00.1: setting latency timer to 64 >> bnx2 0000:02:00.1: firmware: requesting >> bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw >> bnx2 0000:02:00.1: firmware: requesting >> bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw >> eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express >> found at mem dc000000, IRQ 17, node addr 78:2b:cb:3d:08:99 >> >> ----------------------- >> >> A couple of years ago I had trouble with a RealTek card and found >> that the kernel didn't have (working) firmware support for it. In >> that case I was able to get the necessary driver and would load it >> after the machine came up. The next kernel update or two had the >> issue fixed. >> > I was just looking at the message on the list "[CentOS] Problem > getting eth0 up" and it got me wondering. Are you configuring the > network at any point in the install process? With previous versions > I seem to remember the network configuration step as being obvious. > With 6 it isn't. Because I configure eth0 as part of the net install > setup I skip the "Configure Network" box, but it's rather subtle and > easily missed if you haven't already done the network setup. > > > - Richard > > > First time I didn't...the subsequent times I did. I tried setting them as dhcp to no avail. I then tried static. I'll try one more time if it doesn't work i'll have to stick with ubuntu...