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We need to start collating problems encountered at sites and sharing solutions. It will be interesting to find out how many sites have started to use the new machines when we hold the deployment meeting on Thursday. The SLC3 LCG release from CERN in the first instance will only cover worker nodes. The service nodes will be provided for in a later release (perhaps another 1-2 months). I will confirm the situation by the middle of next week, but for sites not already in the testzone please do not consider waiting for the SLC3 release as we want you engaged as soon as possible. Cheers, Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rhys Newman Sent: 28 September 2004 14:14 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Front end machines, RedHat 7.3 and their network controllers Hi Frasier, Good call - its certainly sounds fishy. We haven't started with our machines yet, but I'll let our guys know. I think it's likely we (and possibly other sites) are waiting for the SL release later this month before we load up the front end machines. Cheers Rhys -----Original Message----- From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fraser Speirs Sent: 28 September 2004 14:08 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Front end machines, RedHat 7.3 and their network controllers I've tried to bring up one of my new GridPP front-end machines under RedHat 7.3, but I'm having a hard time with the network controller. Installing 7.3 from CD, the way I would do to set up an LCFGng server, I wasn't able to activate its network controller. The version of the e1000 driver included in 7.3 appears incompatible with the hardware. On a 7.3 machine, lspci reports that the device is an "Intel Corp. Unknown Device". I reinstalled the same machine with Scientific Linux 3, and the ethernet came straight up, acquired an IP via DHCP and worked seemingly perfectly. Under SL3, lspci reports: "03:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)". I saw similar things when I was in Durham last week, attempting to set up their front-ends. Therefore, some questions: 0. Has anyone else had similar results, or am I doing something fundamentally wrong? 1. Am I naive to expect this to work out of the box? 2. Did the tender document say anything about 7.3 compatibility? 4. What's the next step? Thanks, Fraser -- Technical Coordinator - ScotGrid a: Room 473, Kelvin Building, University of Glasgow w: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~fspeirs/ t: 0141 339 8855 x0893