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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 8.x => Topic started by: kruhm on January 18, 2014, 01:26:58 PM
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Hi,
I have a remote server that I connect via KVM. How can I find out how many physical nics/eths it has?
Thanks,
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dmidecode
should do the trick
HTH
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Thank you so much! Looking into now.
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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...
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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
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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
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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/
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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.
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In fact, I really need this working so if someone knows how, contact me and I'll gladly pay going rates via paypal.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.