Topic: discover eth's on remote server [solved]

[kruhm]

Hi,

I have a remote server that I connect via KVM. How can I find out how many physical nics/eths it has?

Thanks,

[Stefano]

Code: [Select]

dmidecode

should do the trick

HTH

[kruhm]

Thank you so much! Looking into now.

[kruhm]

So I discovered that the system board is:
x10slm-f

This has 2 GbE's.

Upon install, I can't get it to get past the SERVER AND GATEWAY - DEDICATED option. It just loops. Hmmm...

[Stefano]

So I discovered that the system board is:
x10slm-f

This has 2 GbE's.

Upon install, I can't get it to get past the SERVER AND GATEWAY - DEDICATED option. It just loops. Hmmm...

is that mb certified for RH? and what about nics?

in any case, raise a bug in bugzilla, thank you

[kruhm]

Well this is what I'm finding.

The manufacture site says yes for Centos 5.8:
http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C224.cfm

But support for Intel I217 isn't available till linux kernel 3.5:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2fbe4526e5aafc9ffa5d85fa4749a7c5b22af6b2

But Intel provides this:
http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-032514.htm

[CharlieBrady]

But support for Intel I217 isn't available till linux kernel 3.5:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2fbe4526e5aafc9ffa5d85fa4749a7c5b22af6b2

Information from kernel.org has little relevance to the kernel shipped by Red Hat (and hence SME server). They backport bug-fixes and drivers to their 2.6.18 kernel used in RHEL5.

RHEL5.9 release notes mention support for Intel i217 NICs.

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html-single/5.9_Release_Notes/

[kruhm]

Gotcha, thanks! That part makes sense.

lspci -v |grep -i ethernet
and
kuduz  --probe --class network

Both show correct info.

It still shows in the CONSOLE as N/A N/A.

[kruhm]

In fact, I really need this working so if someone knows how, contact me and I'll gladly pay going rates via paypal.

[janet]

kruhm

You were asked to raise a bug, do that & hopefully the problem will be resolved.
Alternatively purchase seperate NICs known to work (eg Intel), & connect them to the m/b.
That is probably a cheaper & quicker option than paying a consultant.

The best path to take is bugzilla, & depending on the outcome you can decide what to do next.

[kruhm]

janet, et al.

Thank you so much for any insight you may be able to provide. Here is the bug:

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8145

[kruhm]

RHEL5.9 release notes mention support for Intel i217 NICs.

Thank you for that info. With that I think the ISO for v8.0 is at 5.8. But I'll take it to the BT.

[janet]

kruhm

I think the ISO for v8.0 is at 5.8.

That is correct.

You might want to upgrade to sme8.1beta3, it's using 5.10, refer
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:8.1
at very top & bottom of the page.

I am sure the beta version 3 is as good as sme8.0 & better in places, read the release notes, so any "risk" associated with betas is minimal. You would just tolerate & fix any issues anyway, so that at least your hardware will be functional.

Also 8.1beta1 & beta2 were based on CentOS5.9

Edit: Oh I see from the bug report that you have successfully installed 8.1.