On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Diego F. Arias R. <dak....@gmail.com> wrote: > do you double-check the internal por assignement? How many switchs has that > blade1 or 2? > > You can try running a linux live-cd or maybe Windows to discard a FreeBSD > trouble with the nic. does Freebsd detects 1 or 2 nics, and how many does > the blade have? > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Brian McCann <bjmcc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:18 AM, H.Fazaeli <faza...@sepehrs.com> wrote: >> > what type of blade switch you are using? >> > Are you using HS21 onboard ports or an expansion card? >> > >> > Make sure the corresponding internal ports of >> > the blade switch are at 'no shutdown' state. >> > >> > >> > Brian McCann wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm having problems with the bce interface on a FreeBSD 7.2 install, >> >> using >> >> an IBM BladeCenter HS21 machine. The machine uses the NetXtreme II >> >> card. >> >> The really strange thing here is, the switch shows a link, but the >> >> card >> >> shows no carrier in the setup. It started working for a few seconds at >> >> one >> >> point when I reset the switch (at least, I think that's what I did), >> >> and >> >> it >> >> detected 1000BaseSX as the media and showed a status of active, but >> >> promptly >> >> went away. If I try setting the media type manually, that doesn't >> >> appear >> >> to >> >> work. >> >> Has anyone seen this or have any ideas? >> >> Thanks! >> >> --Brian >> >> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Best regards. >> > Hooman Fazaeli >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> Yes, I'm using an HS21 onbaord card...the Broadcom. The internal >> ports show a link (using the Nortel manager...it's got a the Nortel >> L3-7 switch in it). >> >> I found http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118238 last >> night...it looks like that change was never commited by anyone...I'm >> working on recompiling that into 7.1 now and plan on trying it once >> it's done. I'll post the results up here (and to freebsd-net as well >> if it works). >> >> I'm really hoping that works...since I really would like to avoid >> installing VMWare ESXi on 14 blades just to run 1 VM in each of them >> and loose performance. I'll keep y'all posted. >> >> --Brian >> >> -- >> _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ >> Brian McCann >> >> "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of >> people waiting to abuse me." >> -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters" >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > > > -- > mmm, interesante..... >
Windows runs fine on them. I applied the changes mentioned the patch I just posted, and that fixed the problem...no throughput hit as a result. Thanks to all for the help! --Brian -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"