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Distribution:
Debian
3.0 con actualizaciones de seguridad
Maquina :
AMD
XP 2 GHz
1 Gb RAM
40 Gb Disco Duro
Tarjeta grafica ATI
Indice
1.-
Background of the problem
2.-
Installation Disks , starting all
3.-
Installling the network card
4.-
Conclusiones y Links adicionales
A
new fabricant problem surges when you try to install linux
(particulary debian) on some hardware .
The Hardware is a Xeon
Rack , the ProLiant DL380 Generation 3 consists of :
Compaq's
SMART Array Controllers
Broadcom Network Card
the rest
of the hardware installs well .
2.- Installation Disks and hard drive support
When you try to install debian the first problem is the
install disks (the set of disks with 3.0 version)does not contain
drivers for hard drive.
I download a set of disks from the
Debian homepage, the set are :
Disk1 : root.bin (from
/3.0.23-2002-05-21 Imagenes/images-1.44/bf2.4)
Disk2 :
rescue.bin (from /3.0.23-2002-05-21
Imagenes/images-1.44/bf2.4)
with that disk set the
installation must contain drivers for Compaq's SMART Array
Controllers (cciss drivers if you want to compile at hand)
Then
you can install Debian from this install disks.
When you
finish that, you must compile a kernel (or use one from apt-get)
and put the drivers for the network card.
3.- Installing the Network Card
Download drivers for Broadcom 57xx NIC (BCM5700
particulary) from www.broadcom.com
and
the archive is : linux70.zip
Next
you must compile the kernel, and install it, read kernel
howto .
The next is compile and install the drivers for
the NIC.
#unzip linux.zip
#tar xzvf
bcm5700-7.0.0.tar.gz
it creates a directory hierarchy like
this :
Server/Linux/Driver/bcm5700-7.0.0/src
go to it :
#cd
Server/Linux/Driver/bcm5700-7.0.0/src
#make
this creates
bcm5700.o
(try it with insmod bcm5700.o)
copy it to
/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net
(substitute 2.4.18 for
your kernel version)
add this line to
/lib/modules/2.4.18/modules.dep
/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/bcm5700.o:
next
execute :
#depmod -a
and voila, you can restart and
install it at boot time with
/etc/modules.conf
alias eth0
bcm5700
/etc/modules
eth0
4.- Notes and conclusions
Note: The
installation on Suse 8.0 does not require install disks, the
drivers cciss are included on the cdrom kernel.
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