Problems with Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE
I have a DELL poweredge 1900 server with a BCM5708C NIC which I want t
use as an Exchange 2007 mail server. The machine is installed wit
Windows 2003 server x64 standard edition SP2. After installation o
windows the driver for the NIC was installed. The current driver versio
is 4.4.15.0. Although the card seems to work fine (I can ping othe
computers locally and am able to browse the internet), I noticed tha
there is an error in the windows system event log:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Tcpip
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4191
Date: 4-12-2008
Time: 15:07:23
User: N/A
Computer: MSMAIL1
Description:
IP could not open the registry key for adapte
TCPIP\Parameters\Adapters\NDISWANIP. Interfaces on this adapter will no
be initialized.
For more information, see Help and Support Center a
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 02 00 50 00 ......P.
0008: 00 00 00 00 5f 10 00 c0 ...._..À
0010: 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
After this error appears a lot of other errors appear, all refering t
MS Exchange services not starting. I can understand this since ther
seems to be a TCP/IP problem, so I focus on this error.
Looking up the event ID in MS support site, they say that th
resolution would be to deinstall TCP/IP from the NIC and reinstall i
again. However when I try doing so it seems that I can not Uninstall i
since that button is greyed out, so much for that. Next I saw that yo
could also do this via the command line: "netsh winsock reset", trie
that, no difference after that still the same behaviour (after reboot)
What also bothers me about the NIC is the fact that it will not kee
fixed IP address settings, after changing the address and closing th
TCP/IP properties, I open it again and notice that it's back to DHC
again :-(
Ok so I searched the web for this phenomenon and some people found o
windows 2003OS with Nextreme II adapters and DELL Poweredge PC that th
problem is caused by TOE being enabled on the NIC, disabling this woul
at least solve that problem (and I hoped the event ID 4191 would also b
gone). See
http://forums.isaserver.org/unable_t...2075476/tm.htm
So I disabled TOE by executing the following on the command line
"netsh int ip set chimney DISABLED" and rebooted the system. Thi
procedure was described by DELL. However the problem is still there.
also tried this while physically removing the TOE key from th
motherboard, no change :-(
I tried upgrading the NICs firmware, no change. Uninstalling the NI
and reinstalling it, no change. So now I am out of options, hopin
somebody out there has a bright idea or experience that can help me out
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