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Re: Dell 2650 servers

I have some clients running a couple of these servers in our cage. I remember they mentioned that they had to find some external kernel module to get the gig-E NICs working correctly. They were using Redhat 8.0 though, and so I dunno if Redhat had other modules/code installed to support it. Redhat kernels can approach "bloat" sometimes, IMO.
It sounds like you're having problems with NICs on a PCI card though, and not the motherboard network interfaces, right? 

Eric

On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 09:00 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
I'm currently working with some new Dell 2650 servers. They seem quite nice, 2*Gig-E on the motherboard, keyboard, monitor, and USB connectors both front 
and back, 5*U160 hot-swap hard drives with hardware RAID, and redundant
hot-swappable PSU's.
The ones I've got have 73G hard drives (giving 220G of RAID-5 storage with one 
hot-spare), 2* 1.8GHz P4 CPUs, and 4G of RAM.
One problem I have is that the PCI dual-ethernet cards don't seem to function properly. I've pasted in the dmesg output below. What happens is that they do very slow transfers (much slower than 10baseT) and seem to eat up lots of 
CPU time (can make the entire machine uselessly slow).

Another thing is that these servers have a 100baseT network port on the
motherboard for something called "WebBIOS", has anyone got that working on a 
Linux Server?


eth2: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:02:B3:B3:81:ED, IRQ 16.
  Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
  Board assembly a67265-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
eth3: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:02:B3:B3:81:EE, IRQ 17.
  Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
  Board assembly a67265-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
eth4: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:02:B3:B3:7B:D1, IRQ 24.
  Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
  Board assembly a67265-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
eth5: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:02:B3:B3:7B:D2, IRQ 25.
  Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
  Board assembly a67265-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.

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