On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, stwe22 at comcast.net wrote: > Has anyone managed to get CentOS 6 x86_64 running on a server with a > Broadcom NetXtremeII BCM5709 network adaptor? If so have you seen any > issues with the network freezing? I haven't tried CentOS 6 yet, but I have had this problem with CentOS 5. Try this in /etc/modprobe.conf: options bnx2 disable_msi=1 and reboot. This is a fix on all of the systems that I have tried it on. Steve