Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720
On 5/2/2013 8:24 AM, Lukáš Zíta wrote:
> After some more tests, I have discovered, that those missing
> patches are part of BQL backport to 3.2 kernel (therefore their absence
> in upstream 3.2). In the end it turned out, that the NIC is buggy even
> with BQL disabled. Strange thing is, that the bug only appears on newer
> types of Dell servers, namely R820 and R720. Same card (I have even
> switched them between machines) although do work on R320 and R620 with
> same version of the kernel.
>
> I can not think another way to handle this, so I will have to
> switch toa card from Intel.
To those people who may wonder why/how others often end up with boxes
full of brand new 'perfectly good' hardware that may never be used...
--
Stan
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