David Christensen wrote:
Can you try a different test? Power-on the system with the network
cable attached to an idle switch (i.e. keep all network
traffic from
being forwarded to the NIC during driver initialization). Does the
system power up successfully? Repeatedly? The problem I saw was
caused by network traffic being handled by the NIC during driver
initialization. If you still see the same behavior then
this might be
a different issue.
Looks like we are heading in the right direction here.
The next test is to diable the LOM's management firmware but boot to
an active network. Get the User Diag utility at the bottom of
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii.php.
Run the uxdiag utility with the command line:
"C:\>uxdiag -c 0 -mfw 0 -c 1 -mfw 0 -c 2 -mfw 0 -c 3 mfw 0"
The "-c X" specifies with LOM to use while the "-mfw 0" disables
the firmware. Use the appropriate number of "-c X" values for
the number of ports on your system (the r710 has 4 ports).
To re-enable the firmware do the following:
"C:\>uxdiag -c 0 -mfw 1 -c 1 -mfw 1 -c 2 -mfw 1 -c 3 mfw 1"
Finally, the routine bce_print_adapter_info() in HEAD prints out both
the bootcode and management firmware versions. If you can get those
same changes into your release I'd like to see the versions reported
on your system.
Here is the info from a boot of 8.0 RC2.
ASIC: 0x57092003
B/C: 5.0.6
Rev: C0
Bus: PCIe x4, 2.5Gb/s
Flags: MSI|MFW
MFW: NCS 2.0.3
And looking at this it seems dells update CD was not up to date enough
and I only got 5.0.6 firmware not 5.0.9.
I will update this now and retest.
TJ
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