Is anyone here using a Supermicro X8SIA-F with either Solaris 11 Express, OpenIndiana, or Nexenta?
When I boot the live CD for the latest versions of any of these, the Intel ethernet driver (e1000g) seems to have problems recognizing either of the dual onboard NICs. The driver looks like it loads, but there is no connectivity. I can't get a DHCP address or ping anything.
When I boot the same ISO images on an almost identical system with an X8SIL-F, the network comes up fine. Also, FreeBSD 8.x and Ubuntu 10.10 work fine with the X8SIA-F.
I did have a problem with a corrupted BIOS flash on this particular X8SIA-F a while back, which I thought I fixed, but now I'm wondering if maybe some device ID string is still bad and is confusing the driver.
When I boot the live CD for the latest versions of any of these, the Intel ethernet driver (e1000g) seems to have problems recognizing either of the dual onboard NICs. The driver looks like it loads, but there is no connectivity. I can't get a DHCP address or ping anything.
When I boot the same ISO images on an almost identical system with an X8SIL-F, the network comes up fine. Also, FreeBSD 8.x and Ubuntu 10.10 work fine with the X8SIA-F.
I did have a problem with a corrupted BIOS flash on this particular X8SIA-F a while back, which I thought I fixed, but now I'm wondering if maybe some device ID string is still bad and is confusing the driver.