Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Casper Langemeijer
On 03/18/2013 02:23 PM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: It gets even more weird: I had the NIC daughter card replaced, and the problem still exists. I think I will use the machine in production as it is now. Since I'm not using 4 ethernet ports, for me the issue is not blocking. I hope so

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Casper Langemeijer
On 03/18/2013 12:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/18/2013 3:57 AM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: If I ifup both eth0 and eth1, ifconfig shows both interfaces. No difference between output for them. (except ip/mac of course) The counters get reset every few seconds for the broken eth0. Also

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Casper Langemeijer
On 03/17/2013 05:12 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Which has alway been my understanding of it until so far. But I like to repeat from my first email: "I tried the debian installer again, but even then it's not able to get a DHCP IP address using eth0. eth1 is working fine." This is after a cold boot.

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-17 Thread Casper Langemeijer
On 03/16/2013 07:19 PM, Brian wrote: From that moment on eth0 is not working anymore. I get these kernel messages: [ 1796.583881] tg3 :01:00.0: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting A search with "tg3 transmit timed out resetting" turns up some possibilities for you to investigate. Seriously

Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-16 Thread Casper Langemeijer
Hi List, I've run into an issue trying to install a new PowerEdge R720 server that arrived this week. It is equipped with a broadcom 5720 quad port network interface daughter card. I installed wheezy on it. No problems! The network interface works, and does not require any non-free firmware.