[Beowulf] Help with NIC

J Pill jpilldev at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 11:35:21 PDT 2007


Thank you so mucho Mr. Brown.
I'll get Fedora core 6 and test it.
I'm now just testing with Fedora, next Debian an Solaris.

See ya

On 4/20/07, Ariel Sabiguero Yawelak <asabigue at fing.edu.uy> wrote:
>
>  I am not sure which version of the kernel is shipped with Fedora, but I
> did not manage to make OpenSuSE 10.1, 64 bits work with Broadcom
> BCM4401-B0 card. It just wrote thousands of errors to the /var/log/messages.
> I googled for the error and no similar error since 2003.
> I am sorry that I cannot be more specific, as I moved to another version
> of OpenSuSE that was suitable for me and avoided the problem. I don't keep
> those errors, nor the specific version of the components. Anyway, I think
> that  kernel version was 2.6.16, with patches applied from SuSE.
> My (coward) suggestion is to try FC6, if it is suitable for your needs and
> see if the problem remains or not.
>
> Regards (and sorry for the lousy clue ...)
>
> Ariel
>
>
> Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, J Pill wrote:
>
> Hello to all the comunity beowulf.
> I'm Informatic Systems Administrator student in Colombia
>
> I'm tring to install a Beowulf cluster with OSCAR in Fedora Core 5 in a
> set
> of IBM Machines:
> - CPU = Pentium D 64 bits
> - RAM = 2GB
>
> I got some problems with the NICs, so, Fedora recognize it. Buut, i cannot
>
> obtain an IP address from the IDS; I'm tring to made a LAN with 2 of those
>
> PCs, guess what i can't made it, I give it the IP address but can't made
> any
> comunication; the Fedora's firewall is down.
> The NiCs are Broadcom 440.
> Any sugestión?
>
>
> Please describe the way you are getting IP addresses?  Is there a DHCP
> server out there somewhere?  Are you setting them static?  What tool did
> you use to configure the network?  What is the output of
>
>  ifconfig
>
> and
>
>  route
>
> on each node at this time?  People here can probably help you, but
> you'll have to give details of EXACTLY what your setup is, as there are
> a thousand ways to set up a network incorrectly.
>
>    rgb
>
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>
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