[Gllug] Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2850

[Matthew Cooke]

Check if the server has onboard broadcom or intel NIC's. Every driver 
i've used for broadcom ethernet under linux has been buggy, particularly 
under high load. Lock ups, kernel panics or the kernel takes the 
ethernet card down due to IRQ problems. These problems generally occur 
under high load or after a few days of running.

If it uses an intel card it will be fine, if it's broadcom i'd save time 
and just install an additional NIC.

Matt.

PS have tested opensource & proprietary drivers as recommended by 
dell/broadcom under both suse and redhat.

Paul Cupis wrote:

>On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:43, Dean Wilson <dwilson at unixdaemon.net> 
>wrote:
>  
>
>>Has anyone on list installed Debian on a PowerEdge 2850?
>>
>>Do you have any notes in exchange for beer? :)
>>    
>>
>
>Did it the other day. Use the sarge installer and you should have only 
>one problem.
>
>The PE2850 RTC doesn't like the default RTC driver in the kernel. 
>
>To fix this, you need to make sure that the kernel used the genrtc 
>driver, not rtc.
>
>I did:
>
>$ cat /etc/modutils/999local-rtc
>alias char-major-10-135 genrtc
>$ 
># /sbin/update-modules
>
>and I think I modified /etc/modprobe.d/aliases and added genrtc 
>to /etc/modules.
>
>Anyway, one of the above did the trick. I was using kernel 2.6.
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul Cupis
>  
>

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