Jimmy’s weblog

A few months ago I bought the new x3350 Server. Previously the x3250 was my standard model for small solutions. But I was always missing some important features which are now available with the x3350. These are:

• Hot-swap redundant power supplies
• Dual Gigabit Ethernet for bonding
• Light path diagnostics

Thank you IBM for exactly implementing my wishlist

When I installed Debian etch on the machine everything worked fine except the broadcom NICs. They were not detected so I had to use a newer kernel.
The problem was solved when “Etch and a half” was released because the 2.6.24 kernel includes a newer tg3 module.