Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Emmanuel Halbwachs um 20:12: > Hello everybody, > > I've just suscribed to the list after discovering it recently. I'm > not strictly an ISP, but I provide various services for 150-200 users. > > I would like to run woody on HP Compaq Proliant ML350 G3 (no choice of > the model because of public market reasons). Before buying some > machines, I would like to check if woody can be installed > on. Actually, colleagues of mine own some (running FreeBSD) and > proposed me to try to install woody on one box. The hardware is : > > raid controller : smartarray 641 > ethernet NIC : BCM5702 (subsystem : NC7760) > > This will be my first woody install on raid hardware, so I'm > inexperienced. > > Colleagues told me that woody install fails due to "old" kernel > 2.4.18-bf24 which doesn't include recent modules for the raid (cciss) > and the NIC (tg3 seems better than bcm5700). I've searched the list > archive but I didn't really find an answer.
I don't know for sure about the RAID controller [1] but to get the NIC in a ProLiant DL380G3 (a BMC57xx too) working I compiled the driver from Broadcom against a 2.4.18-bf24 source. This way I get modules which can be used with the woody bf24 kernel so I can setup the system and download a newer kernel to the system. Beginning with 2.4.19 you can use the tg3.o module supplied by the kernel... You can grab the compiled modules from my repository (http://people.iirc.at/moswald/linux/bf24_modules/bcm5700/) or the source directly from Broadcom (http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/) [1] It may work with the cciss module just as the SmartArray 5i does - but I read somewhere about a bug in the driver which wasn't fixed until 2.4.21. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415 \ System Consulting Fax: +43 316 428896 \ Web Development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]