Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Ben Higginbottom <benh.suse@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/1/05, Michael James <Michael.James@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've still got a cluster of 66 machines
>  using the tg3 drivers without problems.
> All versions of Suse Pro from 8.1 on.

I take it thats with the last 2.4 kernel that they released for 8.1,
or have you manually patched the kernel?

> On the PE2650s it's on the motherboard.

Just makes it slightly more difficult :)

>  but when Dell sold me Dual Intel cards for AU$150 each
>  I happily walked away from the 2650 broadcoms,
>  although they hadn't caused me any real grief.
> 

This would be my prefered option, but the sticking point is getting
the bosses to spend the money and schedule downtime.

> I read about lots of people (mainly redhat users) having lots of grief
>  on the Dell list, that seems to have died down though.
> 

Yes, unfortunately some of the servers run an un-updated Deadrat AS3,
really unfortunately for me is that they host the vital Oracle DB's.
It suggests that a full update should cure alot of the problems.

Cheers,

Ben