[CentOS] hardware isues

[William Warren]

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...