On Oct 22, 2013 8:36 AM, "Stan Hoeppner" <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote:
>
> Is this your first rodeo with HP servers?
Blades yes
> > 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.
>
lspci | grep Eth
....
Ethernet Controller: Emulex corporation One connect 10GB NIC (be3) (rev01)
> > 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...
>
Oops, sorry, I forgot to mention that. Its a G7.
> 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
>
>
> --
> Stan
>