[CentOS] hardware isues

Sun Aug 14 15:05:20 UTC 2011
William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>

On 8/14/2011 6:39 AM, lists-centos wrote:
> did you add the broadcom card, or did it come installed? i'm
> wondering if there's some type of conflict between it and the
> onboard  NICs.
>
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
>> Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011 11:29:25 PM -0400
>> From: William Warren
>> To: lists-centos
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] hardware isues
>>
>> Well i have also tried the minimal version and the same thing.  it
>> seems there's something not going well with the t110(and maybe
>> higher units) and centos?
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
> ------------ End Original Message ------------
>
>
The broadcom is embedded the intel dual port is the addon.  Only centos 
6 has this issue i am currently running kvm under ubuntu 10.04 right 
now.  I also did a test install of esxi and astaro and they worked 
perfectly there.  It is something weird with centos.