Re: [Xen-users] network card

[80n <80n80n@xxxxxxxxx>]

See below.

On 1/3/07, Alessandro R. <lord2y@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2007/1/3, 80n <80n80n@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Alessandro
> I don't understand why you need another NIC.
>
> You can make the Broadcom card work by disabling the managment firmware.
> Have you tried that?

No,the link that you suggest was down.
Could you explain how I can disable the  managment firmware?

There is a bug in the IPMI management portion of the firmware on the integrated Broadcom NICs. Dell expects to have a fix available by Fall 2006. In the meantime, this feature needs to be disabled.

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Systems Affected

Dell PowerEdge 1950 Servers with integrated Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC

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Procedure

Before proceeding, Sam Chu <sam.chu@xxxxxxxxx> has reported that he "upgraded the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 firmware to 1.8.2 and the network is working again".

• First, contact Mike Freemon for two CDs that you'll need. For lurkers, there's nothing special about these CDs, just burn your own. See links below for software download locations.
  • DOS 6.22 Bootable CD
  • Broadcom NetXtreme II MS-DOS Utilities
• Boot the PE1950 into DOS using the DOS 6.22 CD
• After boot, remove the DOS CD and insert the Broadcom Utilities CD
• Switch to the R: drive, list the directory (for the fun of it), and change directory into the Userdiag directory

 R:
 dir
 cd Userdiag

• Display the current status of the NICs

 uxdiag -help
 uxdiag -ver

You should see something similar to:

     Brd:Rv Bus      PCI    Spd Base  IRQ     MAC    FmwVer Configuration
 1:5708C:B1 04:00:00 PCIE-4 2.5 0xF800 6 001372F8CA7A 1.8.0 MF,auto

Note the "MF" under the Configuration heading.

• Disable the management firmware on integrated NIC

 uxdiag -c 1 -mfw 0 -t abcd

• If there is a second card listed by the uxdiag -ver command, then it is not disabled in the BIOS. In this case, disable the firmware on the second NIC as well

 uxdiag -c 2 -mfw 0 -t abcd

• Now, the result of a uxdiag -ver command should be:

     Brd:Rv Bus      PCI    Spd Base  IRQ     MAC    FmwVer Configuration
 1:5708C:B1 04:00:00 PCIE-4 2.5 0xF800 6 001372F8CA7A 1.8.0 auto

Note that the "MF" under the Configuration heading is now gone.

• Remove CD and reboot

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References

Broadcom DOS Utility Bcom_LAN_NX2_26_DOSUtilities_A00

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.dell.poweredge/23276

MS-DOS Bootable CD Image www.bootdisks.us

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