I'm having the exact same error as you festuc on Windows 2008 64bit. Installing the newest Dell Broadcom NetXtreme II drivers on our PE 2950 results in that same error. It then causes all the network cards to no longer show up except in the Device Manager. The driver pages are pulling back all the information about the network cards and showing it in the hardware pages, it just wont let them be used by windows.
I even tried the reference drivers IBM has listed on their site which are directly from Broadcom and not modified by IBM and I get the same error. The newest reference driver is 4.4.11 where the one Dell has is 4.2.2 for download.
I have to uninstall the devices and tell windows to remove the driver software from the machine to get it to then fall back to the windows driver that was built in that works.
I had updated the Firmware on the cards to the newest one from Dell as well (4.0.3 I believe).
I've just fought with this on an M805 with 8 NICS.
Once the latest firmware is flashed the only way to get working drivers installed is to run the Dell/Broadcom installation package.
Unfortunately I'm now getting strange behaviour in WS2008 64. I set the IP settings using windows but they are not saved, well they are sort of saved as ipconfig will report the static ip but when I go back into TCP/IP settings on adapter that has a static address it shows it is set to DHCP. On top of that I'm getting very strange routing behaviour, as much that I've had to disable all but one NIC to communicate with the network.
May have to try a reinstall of W2008 unless anyone has the answer to this.
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April 15th, 2008 08:00
festuc
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April 15th, 2008 09:00
Thanks; I have been looking around and did not find them.
It have worked but the drivers I think are not correct.
By the other hand when you install the administration aplication it selects the correct drivers.
Finaly on MDaemon it tells me that there is no NIC installed on the system. Anyone has any idea why?
Thanks.
festuc
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April 16th, 2008 16:00
Drivers don't work:
ltussing
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August 4th, 2008 13:00
I'm having the exact same error as you festuc on Windows 2008 64bit. Installing the newest Dell Broadcom NetXtreme II drivers on our PE 2950 results in that same error. It then causes all the network cards to no longer show up except in the Device Manager. The driver pages are pulling back all the information about the network cards and showing it in the hardware pages, it just wont let them be used by windows.
I even tried the reference drivers IBM has listed on their site which are directly from Broadcom and not modified by IBM and I get the same error. The newest reference driver is 4.4.11 where the one Dell has is 4.2.2 for download.
I have to uninstall the devices and tell windows to remove the driver software from the machine to get it to then fall back to the windows driver that was built in that works.
I had updated the Firmware on the cards to the newest one from Dell as well (4.0.3 I believe).
ltussing
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October 13th, 2008 12:00
festuc
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October 13th, 2008 12:00
I seems that on the Broadcom website there are working drivers and BACS application.
Best Regards.
timd_chapman
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October 16th, 2008 05:00
I've just fought with this on an M805 with 8 NICS.
Once the latest firmware is flashed the only way to get working drivers installed is to run the Dell/Broadcom installation package.
Unfortunately I'm now getting strange behaviour in WS2008 64. I set the IP settings using windows but they are not saved, well they are sort of saved as ipconfig will report the static ip but when I go back into TCP/IP settings on adapter that has a static address it shows it is set to DHCP. On top of that I'm getting very strange routing behaviour, as much that I've had to disable all but one NIC to communicate with the network.
May have to try a reinstall of W2008 unless anyone has the answer to this.