Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 not detected on install

[James Troup]

I've just tried installing edgy on a HP ML370 G5 and it failed to detect the network card, which, according to lspci, is:

Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)
(1434:164c / 103c:7038)

The kernel guys reckon the bnx2 module should support this, but it doesn't appear to be on the server CD.

[James Troup (elmo)]

Just to confirm that the network card is detected and supported just fine on the installed system - the problem simply appears to be that bnx2 isn't in the (right) kernel module udeb.

[Kyle McMartin (kyle)]

[Dapper is also effected.]

I've added bnx2 to nic-modules on both dapper and edgy kernels.

Cheers,
 Kyle

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Excellent news; I was trying to install on a G5 a month ago!

[William Oakley (woakley)]

Hi Kyle

We want to install Ubuntu over the network onto the IBM x3550 which requires the bnx2 drivers. These drivers are not available in the 6.06 LTS netboot image.

Hence, I am looking for a way of including the bnx2 kernel module in the netboot initrd.gz. I would expect that this module would either:

- be built already and available through some other package which I have not yet found

or

- possible to build using the 2.6.15 kernel source using a specific kernel configuration file which I also have not yet found.

I would dearly appreciate any direction on this matter.

[William Oakley (woakley)]

Obviously, this is related to the latest dapper netboot image which I could find:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

kind regards

- William

[William Oakley (woakley)]

I have also checked the linux-source-2.6.15_2.6.15-23.39_all.deb package and the bnx2.c and bnx2.h c files are there in the source.

Hence, all that is required is a configuration file for the netboot kernel.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Seems that Kyle already prepared the fix, this is an excellent target for the dapper point release.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

One-liner fix.

[Gustavo Noronha Silva (kov)]

Is a fix for this already uploaded somewhere? We have this problem in several of our servers running Dapper LTS here where I work, and we had some downtime for this reason already (people upgraded the kernel and the network module which we installed manually was not accordingly reinstalled). We searched the backports for a package, as well, with no success.

[Martin Braun (martin-braun-open-xchange)]

This problem is also valid for Ubuntu 6.06.1 on a large range of HP Proliant DL3xx Servers. I tested a DL380 G5 which provides the same NIC. The following Servers should use this chipset (HP calls it NC373i and NC371i)
* HP Proliant 360 G5
* HP Proliant 365 G1
* HP Proliant 380 G5
* HP Proliant 385 G2

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

linux-source-2.6.15 (2.6.15-51.63) dapper-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix kernel-versions for ABI bump
  * Fix for kernel crash on lvremove
    - LP: #103729
  * e1000: Disable MSI by default. Allow it to be enabled with module param.
    Some chip implementations seem to not work well with MSI.
    - LP: #56885
  * tg3: Backport from 2.6.16.y
    - LP: #72696
  * Add r1000 to nic-modules
    - LP: #81782
  * Add bnx2 to nic-modules
    - LP: #73647
  * usb-serial: Fix oops with pilot-link
    - LP: #39518
  * megaraid: Move AMI/Megaraid3 IDs from megaraid_mbox.ko to megaraid.ko
    - LP: #57233

 -- Ben Collins <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:57:09 -0400

Please test and give feedback here.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

We won't fix this for edgy.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This was tested with the current 6.06.2 candidate CDs and works now. verification-done.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Kernel is in -updates now.