Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:32:24 -0800 (PST) From: Will Froning <wfroning@angui.sh> To: Andrea Brancatelli <andrea@brancatelli.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BladeCenter Saga. Message-ID: <20060113162946.V26744@home.angui.sh> In-Reply-To: <160B72FB-0B0A-4B8F-9065-5EFBCB41D4EC@siliconlandmark.com> References: <200601050917.k059HeAN023417@reddevil.brancatelli.it> <160B72FB-0B0A-4B8F-9065-5EFBCB41D4EC@siliconlandmark.com>
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: =>On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: => =>> The blades have two Broadcom NICs... the bge drivers fires up with no =>> problem, but none of the bge0/bge1 card seems to actually work. Whathever =>> setting I apply to them I cannot reach anything on the outside, and =>> furthermore the emergency shell on VTY4 allows me a very short set of =>> commands. I have no doubts on the functionality of the hardware for =>> various reason (we tried to install on 3 different server always with the =>> same results; one of the blades was working ok with windows 2003 before). =>> =>> A very suspicious thing is that ifconfig reports for both the cards: =>> "status: no carrier", while the cable is surely pulled in (it's hard =>> wired, it cannot be pulled off at all). =>> =>> So we are stuck again. I downloaded the complete ISO for amd64. I plan on =>> doing the installation from CDRom on Blade 3 (the one that actually =>> succeeds in seeing the CD) and then investigate further on the Broadcom =>> issue. =>> =>> Do anyone has ever stepped on problem with the bge driver? => =>Though not in a blade configuration, I have had a couple of Dell PowerEdge =>servers with the bge driver running for a couple of years flawlessly. I can agree to bge cards working on standard Dell 1U/2U/xU boxes, but they did not work in the first generation Dell blades I tested. So there is definitely some difference even when the chips are reported to be the same. Thanks, Will -- Will Froning Unix Sys. Admin. wfroning@angui.sh
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