I have a dell pe700 installed and running just fine with suse 9,1..
Are you still having problems?
-j
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:38:21 -0400, John Plummer
Thought I'd pass along the fix(?) for the eth0 problem as described in the email copied below. Thanks go to Shane and Brana for their suggestions relative to the device driver and the ACPI option respectively. Hopefully, this will be useful for other PowerEdge 700 users. The fix: Against my normal MO, I implemented both changes at the same time so I'm not sure which was actually the problem. I was onsite with the customer observing (and paying) so testing was not an available luxury. Anyway, I installed v9.1 and took the disable ACPI option. Everything worked. The release notes discussed the new NIC drivers so that could have been the problem. But ACPI was disabled so that could have been the problem. We're installing another server in a few months. I might test the two fixes separately if anyone cares to know. Thanks again. jcp
Original problem: A customer ordered a Dell PowerEdge 700 with no O/S as Dell supports only RedHat. We loaded Suse 8.2 from CD. It is to be used as a MySQL server only. During install the Dell network 'card' is detected but the Connect to the Internet test fails. Switching between DHCP and fixed IP (the preference) makes no difference. However, after you modify the network settings and Finish in Yast2, it will include the phase '(modified)' in the title bar if you call the network connection up again. It remembers the IP settings when switching. During boot, its says lo is done but eth0 fails. We have a generic PC similarly configured with Suse 8.2 running without problem on the network using fixed IP as a temporary server until this one is installed. So the IP settings are correct. The configuration is simple. Dell support is somewhat at a loss and suggests the device driver may be the problem. But since it is new they are sending someone to change out the motherboard in the morning. It's an onboard Intel NIC. I'm going to try installing Suse 9.1 before that in case it has newer drivers. The Suse hardware database shows a number of certified Dell PowerEdge servers though not this specific one. If anyone has experience like this or any relevant advice as to where to look, I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
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