Let me start by saying this may or may not be a Fedora issue.
I recently purchased two Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboards and am running F12 on them. The marketing for these boards say they support SMBIOS 2.4 and DMI, yet dmidecode says:
[root@phoenix ~]# dmidecode # dmidecode 2.10 # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.
What could be wrong? I've never seen a system that fails on this command before, and now I have two of them? They also have a problem with the on-board LAN and probably Firewire. Neither onboard NIC is working, the first shows a MAC of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. The other looks ok, but fails to work. Disabling the on-board NICs and using an off-board, PCI NIC works. The Firewire controller (granted I don't really use it), also identifies itself oddly:
firewire_ohci 0000:06:07.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:06:07.0, OHCI version 1.10 firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 0000000000000000, S400
I suspect these are all related. Possibly a bad BIOS although both systems are fully updated in that respect. Anyone else have a similar issue?
On 11/03/10 01:06 PM, Chris Kloiber wrote:
Let me start by saying this may or may not be a Fedora issue.
I recently purchased two Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboards and am running F12 on them. The marketing for these boards say they support SMBIOS 2.4 and DMI, yet dmidecode says:
[root@phoenix ~]# dmidecode # dmidecode 2.10 # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.
I have the exact same Mobo, and so far I have had no issues with either of the NICs. I have used Fedora 10 and 11 with this board. However I have not checked the BIOS version with dmidecode. I have done several BIOS upgrades since I bought the board. Gigabyte provides binary updates which you can use from a USB drive. Maybe you can try that?
Sorry I can't help any more as I am 15 hrs away from my system and I won't be back before next week. Hopefully this was of some help.
On 03/11/2010 11:59 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On 11/03/10 01:06 PM, Chris Kloiber wrote:
Let me start by saying this may or may not be a Fedora issue.
I recently purchased two Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboards and am running F12 on them. The marketing for these boards say they support SMBIOS 2.4 and DMI, yet dmidecode says:
[root@phoenix ~]# dmidecode # dmidecode 2.10 # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.
I have the exact same Mobo, and so far I have had no issues with either of the NICs. I have used Fedora 10 and 11 with this board. However I have not checked the BIOS version with dmidecode. I have done several BIOS upgrades since I bought the board. Gigabyte provides binary updates which you can use from a USB drive. Maybe you can try that?
Sorry I can't help any more as I am 15 hrs away from my system and I won't be back before next week. Hopefully this was of some help.
Ok. Odd. I did flash one of the systems. Not to upgrade, but in th hope of correcting possible corruption. Didn't help.