On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:23:35 -0700, Scott Edwards wrote: (please, don't cross-post or at least warn the users about it...)
> I have a Dell poweredge 850 server with a quad port intel gigabit > ethernet pci-x card, but I'm only getting 2 of the 4 expected ports > listed. You mean you get only 2 of the 4 ports for both cards, right? > The external usb drive used to boot this hasn't deleted the 'auto eth > renumbering', so ports for eth0 start at eth11 - eth14. You can re-do the udev rules for the network interface so it starts by eth0 and so on. > More diagnostics here: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sLivuXo_LizOOzPaTQyyofZ_d5QKDUD9F176b4trREU/edit > > I haven't seen anything suspect in dmesg. Me neither, it seems the 4 NICs are properly detected. Things I would check: 1/ BIOS (to verify the embedded NICS are not making noise) 2/ Kernel (test with a LiveCD featuring one of the latest kernels available) 3/ "dmesg | grep -i eth" (for possible driver errors) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jssdum$4gd$8...@dough.gmane.org
