On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:12, Ed Sherman wrote:

Hello all,

I'm trying to install SLES9 on a Tyan K8SR (S2881)

The install goes okay but when the system start up I get:

eth0 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding. .......... waiting

Same thing with eth1 (The board has two NICs)

I can't connect to another machine via network. I can only ping localhost.

I'm wondering if others have had this problem on this same board or if the network config goes well on the other Tyan K8SR (S2881) out there.

I've searched for this on the net and found other people having similar problems but not for this particular motherboard or network interface (Broadcom 5704).

If you've installed with this board and it went well please let me know. If you had problems with networking on this board and solved it (or didn't) please let me know if you have a solution.

I'm starting to suspect a bad network interface on the board.

Thanks in advance, Ed

Actually the 2881 has been know to have Ethernet issues. I have had to return a few because the ethernet would stop working after pushing a few hundred MB over it. But they would work at first. The above message would indicate either a delay from spanning-tree turned on your switch, auto-detect on the port not working thus setting it to something like half-duplex and the BCM trying to communicate at full duplex, bad ethernet cable (Verify link lights are on), or bad ethernet. Have you ran "ethtool eth0" to see if you have a link, etc? Can you get us that info? Also is it loading the BCM5700 driver or the TG3? Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:16, Joe Georger wrote:

We've got 7 of these units. On one the ethernet is dead. Some of them have qlogic cards and are serving 2-3 3TB raids. When we try to move copy large files over nfs or rcp, the machines like to lock up. We have gone from Suse 9.1 Pro to 9.2 Pro to SLES9 and nothing is staying up.

Is the BCM5704C really that bad? I can't blame the OS because I just can't believe SLES9 would lock up like that.

Joe

Unfortunately on these motherboards yes. I too have had some lockup issues when using the onboard ethernet on the S2881. I resorted to installing a Intel Pro 1000 instead on these. You should contact Tyan because supposingly the latest revision corrects these problems. Should be able to get a free replacement. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com