Gigabit issues with P4DPE-G2

I just moved a server with a P4DPE-G2 motherboard into a new room. It
had been connected to a HP Procurve 2324 gigabit module before, and
worked fine. In the new room, it's connected to a Cisco Catalyst gigabit
switch, and it won't see the link at all. There's no link light no
matter how much I try. If I plug it into a 100Mb switch (another Procurve),
the link lights up immediately.

Any ideas on getting it to talk to the Cisco? I flashed the BIOS to the
most recent version, and it didn't help.

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

In article <slrnc09au0.8fv.jlb17.RemoveThis@chaos.egr.duke.edu>, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
 > I just moved a server with a P4DPE-G2 motherboard into a new room. It
 > had been connected to a HP Procurve 2324 gigabit module before, and
 > worked fine. In the new room, it's connected to a Cisco Catalyst gigabit
 > switch, and it won't see the link at all. There's no link light no
 > matter how much I try. If I plug it into a 100Mb switch (another Procurve),
 > the link lights up immediately.
 >
 > Any ideas on getting it to talk to the Cisco? I flashed the BIOS to the
 > most recent version, and it didn't help.

It turns out this is a somewhat known issue with this (and some other,
related) board. The onboard NICs won't talk to some switches, are flaky
with others, and just plain work with still others. It's fixed in the X5DP*
series of boards.

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->