HP BL460c G6 and SLES 10 SP3

[paulnorthrup]

Hi,

I just installed SLES 10 SP3 on a HP BL460c G6 blade. It looked like everything was detected. After entering the activation code I ran the automatic update. No patches.
I have had problems with detecting the HP NC-Series Broadcom 1GbE & 10GbE hardware but SP3 recognised the NIC.

After the install I stress tested the NIC.
It failed resulting in massive entries in /var/log/warn

Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel: [bnx2x_stats_update:4294(eth0)]storm stats were not updated for 3 times
Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel: [bnx2x_stats_update:4295(eth0)]driver assert
Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel: [bnx2x_panic_dump:592(eth0)]begin crash dump -----------------
Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel: [bnx2x_panic_dump:600(eth0)]def_c_idx(179) def_u_idx(0) def_x_idx(0) def_t_idx(0) def_att_idx(6) attn_state(0) spq_prod_idx(182)
Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel: [bnx2x_panic_dump:611(eth0)]fp0: rx_bd_prod(2789) rx_bd_cons(78b) *rx_bd_cons_sb(1795) rx_comp_prod(2880) rx_comp_cons(1880) *rx_cons_sb(187f)
<<...SNIP...>>

I located the bnx2x in the kernel "Provides" section.
/lib/modules/2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2x.ko

I re-booted the server and repeated the process. Another "panic_dump" happened.

I'm going to install the NIC driver from HP {netxtreme2-5.0.17-1.src.rpm} and see if that resolves the "panic_dump"

Paul