HP Proliant DL360 G2 SMP

[jamescpp]

Hi. I've been having problems with a Proliant DL360 G2 running Redhat 8. The server was continually locking up. Looks like the problem is the NIC driver, because without the tg3 driver loaded the server has been up for a day now. I've been working with HP/Compaq to install the bcm5700 driver from them, but I cannot get it installed in the smp kernel.

I go through the doc for installing it and it seems to go fine. The bcm5700.o file is installed to /lib/modules/2.4.18-14smp/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o

When I try "insmod bcm5700" I get the following error:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14smp/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o:
couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for

It runs fine for the non-SMP version. Compaq says it works fine for them, but they aren't doing it on an SMP machine. They keep having me do the same crap, uninstall the source, reinstall the source, follow the docs to install. Same thing every time!

Does anyone have this driver working for smp?
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
James

 

[Norwich]

It looks like the smp kernel rpm is available from redhat or rpmfind.net and that includes it's own bcm5700.0 driver. Have you tried using that one? (it should be compiled against the rest of the kenel in the same tree).

See:

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kernel-smp

and:

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/8.0/i386/kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.html

 

[jamescpp]

Yep, already have that installed:
[root@pcalakwhs01 root]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9
kernel-smp-2.4.18-14
kernel-2.4.18-14
kernel-source-2.4.18-14

When I follow their documentation doing the following steps it does put a new bcm5700.o file under the linux-2.4.18-14smp drivers directory.

When running in smp mode I do this:
# cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14
# make mrproper
# make -e KERNELRELEASE=`uname -r` oldconfig
# make -e KERNELRELEASE=`uname -r` dep
# rpm -ivh bcm5700-<version>.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/redhat
# rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec
# rpm -ivh RPMS/i386/bcm5700-<version>.i386.rpm --force

Setup the aliases in the modules.conf. When I try to load the drivcer it says it for the wrong kernel.

Thanks,
James

 

[Norwich]

As you've got both kernels (single and smp) maybe there are compile options (config, make etc) to build the driver for the smp binaries rather than the standard single processor.


Does this help in any way?:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3A076118.3B68446C@acm.org