[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8

[Jarrad Piper]

Thank's chris, I'll invest in another microSD card and do some testing with
other illumos based distros.


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Chris Ridd <chrisridd at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On 25 Jul 2013, at 02:57, Jarrad Piper <jarrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've just received my Gen8 Microserver (G2020 model). Unfortunately the
> > NIC's are not detected in OI's installer. It looks like it uses a
> Broadcom
> > 5720 chip which is not supported. I have tried to use the latest Broadcom
> > drivers for Solaris 11 but the NIC's are still not detected. For now I
> have
> > popped in an older Broadcom Dual Port NIC. Also of note is that KVM
> freezes
> > when booting a VM with this CPU (even with the suggested fix in the OI
> KVM
> > Wiki).
>
> I'm interested in one of these boxes as a fileserver/KVM host as well.
> Keep us updated if you make any progress! :-)
>
> I don't know how recent OI's kernel and drivers are, but there are
> suggestions in the Illumos sources that the 5720 is supported.
>
> The Illumos issue tracker's kind of unclear about this though.
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3056
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/390 (which references
> https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/6ab6198a2608e8eaad25952200629bdcea12eb51
> )
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3812
>
> Try an Illumos kernel/driver containing the above change. Using a current
> OmniOS or SmartOS build instead of OI might be necessary.
>
> Chris
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