RE: HP DL180 G6 with Debian Lenny

Hi,

The G5 serie indeed uses the broadcom network card.
The BNX2 driver I already build back in.

The G6 serie usually uses the E1000 driver.
The strange thing is that I see it in the list of available drivers but it's
not being used.

Knoppix live cd, debian testing live cd and a rescue system I use, all say
that it's an Intel Gigabit card which uses the e1000 driver.
With all these live cd's the network card is detected and I can use it.
Also Ubuntu 9.04 installer recognizes the network card ( 8.04 & 8.10 don't )


Regards,

Richard Pijnenburg


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Van: Alex Samad [mailto:alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Verzonden: zondag 16 augustus 2009 8:38
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Onderwerp: Re: HP DL180 G6 with Debian Lenny

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 09:42:56PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
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On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 15:14:29 +0200, Richard Pijnenburg wrote:
Hi all,

I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on a HP DL180 G6 server.

This server seems to have an Intel network card which needs the
e1000 driver.

But for some reason it's not recognized because using the
netinstaller it asks what kind of network card is in the server.

This might be a broadcom network card (usually used in HP DL), some time
around 2.6.28 ( i think) the firmware got removed from the install this
could be your problem

not sure if the below install help with that :)


I see that the e1000 driver is in the list but it does nothing with it.

Could it be that the bundled e1000 driver in the netinstaller is to old?

It would help to know the PCI vendor and device IDs of the network card.
Does the installer let you switch to a terminal with CTRL + ALT + F2
(or another function key)? In that case you can try to run "lspci -nn"
and find the line(s) of the ethernet controller(s). The relevant
information will be (almost) at the end of the line(s); it consists of
two four-digit hexadecimal numbers that are separated by a colon and
enclosed in square brackets (an example: "[10ec:8139]").

You could also try one of Kenshi Muto's customized Lenny installer
images, they have newer kernels: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/


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