Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers
On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote:
Is this your first rodeo with HP servers?
> I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after
> installing I've seen that network is not working properly. It recognises
> around 8 interfaces, mii-tool says that there is not any link present.
Post your dmesg and lspci output WRT to the NIC hardware so we can
verify which Ethernet chip it is.
> I've searched on Hp support page and they only bring a small iso for hdd
> drivers. Does anybody has had the same trouble with this model? They are
> new servers, firmware is not yet updated (is scheduled for tomorrow).
Which BL460C? The G8? The BL460C been on the market since 2010 at the
latest, 3 years ago. There have been at least 3 hardware generations of
this blade. However...
The NC373i has existed since at the latest 2007, 6 years ago. It uses a
Broadcom chipset. It is included in just about every HP server, has
been for over half a decade. It is fully supported by Linux going back
to 2.6.
> Googling, i've read that there's only official support for RHEL family.
> Anyway, we prefer using Debian rather than other distro. Hope it is
> possible.
This is probably simply a non-free firmware issue. The Wheezy installer
probably didn't install the firmware by default, nor ask you to do so.
See: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware
Look for:
Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708/5709/5716 Driver
Broadcom NetXtreme II
BCM57710/57711/57711E/57712/57712_MF/57800/57800_MF/57810/57810_MF/57840/57840_MF
Driver
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Stan
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