Hello PVE team!
Very recently, our Blade 6048 got a few new blades. We've discovered that the hardware differs a bit from those we already had, and one of the differences appears to be a different network card.
Old blade model:
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
New blade model:
1f:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
This model uses the "igb" driver, and works as expected in Debian lenny 2.6.26 and PVE kernel 2.6.32. However, the cards are undetected with PVE kernels 2.6.18 and 2.6.24.
We've done a quick test involving fetching the latest igb driver from Intel (igb 2.1.9, http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/igb stable/2.1.9/igb-2.1.9.tar.gz/download ) and compile them against pve-headers. They appear to work flawlessly in 2.6.24 and 2.6.18.
I've found that the igb driver is already backported in the Proxmox kernels (http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/1107-new-proxmox-ve-Installation-network-down) and would be very grateful if they could be backported again for both 2.6.24 and 2.6.18. I'll be happy to test from the pvetest repo.
Very recently, our Blade 6048 got a few new blades. We've discovered that the hardware differs a bit from those we already had, and one of the differences appears to be a different network card.
Old blade model:
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
New blade model:
1f:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
This model uses the "igb" driver, and works as expected in Debian lenny 2.6.26 and PVE kernel 2.6.32. However, the cards are undetected with PVE kernels 2.6.18 and 2.6.24.
We've done a quick test involving fetching the latest igb driver from Intel (igb 2.1.9, http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/igb stable/2.1.9/igb-2.1.9.tar.gz/download ) and compile them against pve-headers. They appear to work flawlessly in 2.6.24 and 2.6.18.
I've found that the igb driver is already backported in the Proxmox kernels (http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/1107-new-proxmox-ve-Installation-network-down) and would be very grateful if they could be backported again for both 2.6.24 and 2.6.18. I'll be happy to test from the pvetest repo.