On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:41:13AM -0430, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 16:01 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 > > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) > > > > /etc/network/interfaces: > > post-up ethtool -K eth0 tx off > > > > Fixes it here. > > Been there, done that, doesnt't work for these machines. The problem has > to do with the interaction of the card with IBM's IPMI controller, and > requires the latest Broadcom drivers. We were able to work around this issue by disabling the IPMI management portion of the firmware via a DOS tool as described on <http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround> when all other approaches had failed. This was a bit ugly but at least it works: Etch stock Xen kernel, network bridge functional, management firmware not needed. Cheers, Flo
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