No Network on Dell PE 410

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Hello,

I installed Proxmox 1.4 on a Dell PowerEdge 410 and after boot, I seem to have no network driver support.

I have looked around and people suggest upgrading the kernel and drivers, but should these not be inc within Proxmox. From my understanding I need the NetXtremeII drivers.

Has anyone a fix for this yet?

Thanks,

Paul
http://www.ukhost4u.com/
 
ukhost4u said:
Hello,

I installed Proxmox 1.4 on a Dell PowerEdge 410 and after boot, I seem to have no network driver support.

I have looked around and people suggest upgrading the kernel and drivers, but should these not be inc within Proxmox. From my understanding I need the NetXtremeII drivers.

Has anyone a fix for this yet?

Thanks,

Paul
http://www.ukhost4u.com/
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one question,
which ISO image do you use? the initial one or the updated ISO?
see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Downloads

also take a look in the logs, (lspci and lsmod).
 
Hello,

I only downloaded it yesterday, its:

proxmox-ve_1.4-4323.iso

I checked the web site again today and this is still the latest ISO.

From reading online, driver support was added in .29 kernel and by adding:

linux-image-2.6.29-bpo.2-686_2.6.29-5~bpo50+1_i386.deb
firmware-bnx2_0.17~bpo50+1_all.deb

This seems to be the case for all the new Xeon 5505 chip's from Dell inc: R410, R610 & R710 which use new boards and chips.

If you could help, that would be great.

Thanks,

Paul Hughes
http://www.ukhost4u.com/
 
Hello,

That seems to be the problem, its only back ported to version 2.6.29 and as you don't run this kernel I can't install these packages.

Paul
 
Thanks,

If you can update me with your progress when its done, I will be happy to test it.

I think its important as this will effect anyone buying new servers from Dell as all the new boards will need these drivers.

Paul
 
I have this exact same problem. I have two R410's waiting to go into production.

This guy had a fix:

http://www.hostatic.ro/

But I can't get past the 'make' statements. I'm a bit of a Debian noob, is 'make' not included in the Proxmox kernel?

Cheers,

Chris.
 
Hello Chris,

If you download the latest version 1.4 beta 2 it works perfectly and installs the network drivers without any issues. Also I have not had any trouble with the stability of the beta though I only use OpenVZ anyway.

Paul
www.ukhost4u.com
 
Hi,

Unfortunately we're hit by this issue on a new Dell PowerEdge R410 server that we wanted to add to a 1.3 cluster, for production use.

Is it possible to get this driver included in Proxmox 1.3 - or do kernel versions make this impossible?
 
bf-adam said:
Hi,

Unfortunately we're hit by this issue on a new Dell PowerEdge R410 server that we wanted to add to a 1.3 cluster, for production use.

Is it possible to get this driver included in Proxmox 1.3 - or do kernel versions make this impossible?
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1.4 final will be released tomorrow.
 
for me the same...
any hint to use this machine with the onboard bcm5716 ????

Do you have the drivers for it?

I use the 1.4 release but the bnx2 does not work ...


Tx, Diaolin
 
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My Dell T410 does not find the bnx2 interface....
even modprobing bnx2 i have no answer and the ifconfig give's no answer...

Any hint?

The interface is a Broadcomm Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5716 Gigabit
Tx, Diaolin
 
RESOLVED:


it was my fault, i had an image proxmox-ve_1.4-4305.iso
that i thought to be the latest....

but the latest is proxmox-ve_1.4-4390.iso

SOrry, now it's all ok
 
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