Re: Dell PowerEdge 1550 (Intel Pro/100+ Dual Port)
Donald Becker <[email protected]> Fri, 14 May 2004 15:15:56 -0400 (EDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel |
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| Message-ID | <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405141513450.3716-100000@beohost> |
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Schulenberg Joshua wrote: > --- John Madden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe there may be a problem with the > > > linux-eepro100 driver and the NIC that Dell ships > > with > > > many servers. It is a Dual Port Pro/100 (82558 I > > > think). > I have 2 1550s that are doing the same thing: No link > light. They both worked under Windows 2000 with no > problem. The only obvious problem that might occur is if the EEPROM is not correctly programmed with the transceiver. This frequently occurs with non-Intel boards. The bogus GUID (Globally Unique ID) also violates the PXE specs when doing network boot. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Software Scyld Beowulf cluster systems 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 www.scyld.com Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993