On Oct 22, 2013 8:36 AM, "Stan Hoeppner" <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: > > Is this your first rodeo with HP servers?
Blades yes > > I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after > > installing I've seen that network is not working properly. It recognises > > around 8 interfaces, mii-tool says that there is not any link present. > > Post your dmesg and lspci output WRT to the NIC hardware so we can > verify which Ethernet chip it is. > lspci | grep Eth .... Ethernet Controller: Emulex corporation One connect 10GB NIC (be3) (rev01) > > I've searched on Hp support page and they only bring a small iso for hdd > > drivers. Does anybody has had the same trouble with this model? They are > > new servers, firmware is not yet updated (is scheduled for tomorrow). > > Which BL460C? The G8? The BL460C been on the market since 2010 at the > latest, 3 years ago. There have been at least 3 hardware generations of > this blade. However... > Oops, sorry, I forgot to mention that. Its a G7. > The NC373i has existed since at the latest 2007, 6 years ago. It uses a > Broadcom chipset. It is included in just about every HP server, has > been for over half a decade. It is fully supported by Linux going back > to 2.6. > > > Googling, i've read that there's only official support for RHEL family. > > Anyway, we prefer using Debian rather than other distro. Hope it is > > possible. > > This is probably simply a non-free firmware issue. The Wheezy installer > probably didn't install the firmware by default, nor ask you to do so. > > See: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware > > Look for: > > Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708/5709/5716 Driver > > Broadcom NetXtreme II > BCM57710/57711/57711E/57712/57712_MF/57800/57800_MF/57810/57810_MF/57840/57840_MF > Driver > > > -- > Stan >
