Hi! Installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 (amd64) and the NIC does not work: it does not configure through DHCP and it simply does not work if I set a static IP address.
Ran FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) Live CD and the network worked fine. It seems this machine does not like Linux. I have no more ideas about what might be wrong. Anyone has more ideas? 2015-03-13 16:30 GMT+00:00 Kevin Kwan <kkwan....@gmail.com>: > Try booting it up using a more modern OS live image (like, say, Ubuntu 14 > or Fedora 21), and then go back to CentOS. CentOS itself is kind of old > even as far as Linux is concerned. It could be as simple as some internal > register not being re-initialized properly after the swap. What does the > relevant boot lines look like in the CentOS dmesg? > On Mar 13, 2015 12:21 PM, "Steven McDonald" <ste...@steven-mcdonald.id.au> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:48:02 +0000 > > Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves <m...@mbg.pt> wrote: > > > > > I recently installed OpenBSD 5.6 on an amd64 platform. Everything went > > > smoothly. After installation, at the first boot, OpenBSD updated the > > > firmware of some devices. I found this strange... > > > > OpenBSD runs fw_update(8) on first boot. fw_update simply downloads > > firmware packages and installs firmware onto the filesystem (not > > directly into the devices that use it) for drivers that need to load it > > at runtime. Linux has a similar firmware-loading mechanism, but it > > typically ships the firmware embedded in the kernel. > > > > > I had to reinstall this machine with CentOS and now the NIC does not > > > work. > > > > Did the machine work with CentOS previously? It seems extremely > > unlikely that fw_update would be able to break Linux's use of the > > hardware, since that firmware is loaded on every boot by the relevant > > driver in both operating systems. > > > > > I reinstalled OpenBSD again and it works. I tried to reflash the NIC's > > > firmware and the installer does not recognize the NIC. At the moment, > > > the machine only works with OpenBSD... > > > > Some details as to specifically what you did and what failed, as well as > > a dmesg, would be useful here. All I can say with the information given > > is that, if your Broadcom NIC requires non-free firmware to be loaded by > > the driver, the OpenBSD installer would not be able to use it because > > it does not include non-free firmware. > > > > If fw_update was able to run on first boot, though, it sounds like your > > NIC is usable without firmware. Again, a dmesg would help (I'm not even > > sure which of the three Broadcom NIC drivers in OpenBSD you're using).
