[Techtalk] HP Server query [SOLVED]

[Patricia Fraser]

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Hi all,

> Just a small info : we have installed such hardware with redhat/fedora
> several times. The built-in driver usually worked, and the additional
> tg3 driver also never had real issues (we had more trouble with ASR
> feature that made some servers reboot randomly for no obvious reason).

I'd seen enough around the net to suggest that the tg3 driver, at
least, should have been okay, so today I turned off iLO and disabled
both the onboard ethernet ports, and installed a 3Com ethernet card -
solved!

And no more NMI errors, so whatever was causing it was either tied to
the ports or tied to the iLO.

We've also seen some other reports on the net that suggest that the
onboard gigabit ethernet ports, when faulty, might throw up NMI errors
- - but anyway, once they were disabled, the problems vanished!

Cheers, and thanks for the help!

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Trish Fraser, GWQTF RP4GD
Sun Apr 13 18:44:04 BST 2008
GNU/Linux 1997-2007 #283226 counter.li.org
perseus up 9 hour(s), 26 min, 1 sec
kernel 2.6.18.8.tex5
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