Re: NetXtreme II BCM5708 and bridging (was: Packaging a module that overwrites kernel-provided files)
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:46 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote:
> 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.
Sadly, there's no documented way to disable IPMI on the IBM x3655
servers :-/
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