PowerEdgeTM T105
Submitted by phonebuff on Fri, 11/23/2007 - 2:11pm.
New customer wants a Dell. Hope to use 2.4, they will have about 20 Cisco Local LAN Phones and maybe a half dozen off premise extensions. Six Paths from CBeyond on SIPConnect, four paths from IPComms (Numbers out side exchange) and misc services like VM, Fax, and small (two to four ) conferences.
Thinking of the PowerEdgeTM T105
With Dual Core AMD® OpteronTM processor, 1GB of Memory, and two 160GB Hard Drives!
OR --
PowerEdgeTM SC440
With Dual Core Intel® Pentium® E processor, 1GB of Memory, and two 160GB Hard Drives!
Any one with experience on either of these boxes ??
Phonebuff --
T105 NIC
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 7:10pm
I just received a T105 today for a customer. Using 2.2.9, it does not recognize the onboard Broadcom Gigabit NIC.
Kudzu -p shows it found it, recognizes it, but that's the end of it.
class: Network
bus: PCI
detached: 0
device: eth0
driver: unknown
desc: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vrndorID: 14e4
...........
From memory, I ended up using other NICS in the last SC4xx box too.
Sure would be nice if the standard distro had the drivers for the most affordable Dell boxes.
Any ideas on easist way to implement a fix?
I tried the following link and it did not help on the T105.
http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/help/dell-sc440-smp-...
T105
Sat, 12/22/2007 - 9:24am
Oh yeah, things I learned after receiving my first T105.
Basically, no IDE connectors. There is one, but it uses a proprietary cable and is connected to the front USB ports. If you retask the single IDE port for a HD/CD/DVD drive, you will lose the front USBs.
One traditional PCI interface. 2 PCI Express x8 and one x1 slot. SC4xx had more traditional PCI slots I think.
No PS2 mouse/kb ports, USB only. Same as SC4xx I think.
Since the onboard NIC doesn't work out-of-the-box, and I run two NICS on my boxes, I needed to spend 85 bucks on two Intel PCI Express NICS, nneded the PCI for a TDM400.
On the positive side, the Opteron is fast, boot times are about 20 seconds even with RAID1 setup in software. Very quiet box. Great value for the money, especially when on sale.
be careful with those AMD
Sat, 12/22/2007 - 12:03pm
well, so far I am
Sun, 12/23/2007 - 4:34pm
well, so far I am unimpressed, ordered a t105 for an SBS install, and just decided to test trix on it.
Opteron 1210
2gb RAM
2x 250 GB SATA drives
SATA DVDROM
Dell SAS 4 channel RAID card
(standard promo package, just added the RAID card for $200)
trixbox CE 2.3.0.12 RC3
sits at loading MPTSAS driver for 2-3 minutes, then loads satanv driver (POS Nvidia chipset), then from there it seems to loose everything, asks for kickstart file (it cant see the cd), and the usb keyboard stops working completely.
trixbox 2.2
Gets further, loads the MPTSAS driver pretty fast, everything looks good, but asks for keyboard type (US) - and of course the USB keyboard stops taking input.
FYI - the keyboard works fine moving around on the bios and raid bios.
I will mess with this for a short period, but then its on to what nvidia was designed for - windows.
FYI - I have used the PE860 with great success on 2.2x and 2.3 no driver issues, just load and go, and it seems to have no issues with TDM cards.
I settled on an 840
Sun, 12/23/2007 - 8:42pm
840 = good choice - solid
Sun, 12/23/2007 - 9:26pm
840 = good choice - solid for me too.
so far the T105 is not trix material, pulled the raid card it got a little further on 2.3RC3 and actually read the ks from the cd, but still no go on the USB keyboard, seems like the usb chipset is not centos friendly - I hate this move to eliminate ps2.
What are your keyboard/mouse
Mon, 12/24/2007 - 8:28am
What are your keyboard/mouse settings in BIOS? If you have USB emulation or legacy support enabled, you may want to disable that. I had to do that on several systems (AMD and Intel) in order to get USB keyboards to work reliably in the past.
Currently running 2.3 CE on a Dell PowerEdge 1950 (all USB).
I have 840 & T105 but T105 dont work
Fri, 01/25/2008 - 12:37am
840 installed great - no problem there
but T105 would hang at Keyboard
Same problem with everyone else.
I thought it is a problem with CentOS but it is not. I am able to install 2 other asterisk installations based on CENTOS5 successfully on T105.
Don't ask me for names, cause my last post had the name of another one that is not centos5 based but the post never made it thru. So I assume, the moderators here don't like mentioning names of other installs.
Do a search on VOIP-INFO.org and you should be able to get a list of all the others out there.
Now I am beginning to love my T105 as well.
Trixbox: please take a look into it. Dell's T105 seems very attractive for small applications. It works perfectly with one of the other asterisk installs.
Sorry - My Bad
Fri, 01/25/2008 - 11:45am
Sorry, I did not realize I posted it into the other thread. I thought I was in this thread all the time. Sorry, folks, I apologize for accusing fonality of censoring posts. Will always make sure. I guess I was just pissed off at Dell as I bought a Smartphone and the Internet Calling feature is removed and when I posted this at Dell Review where I wanted to warn consumers that if they are looking for this feature then don't buy it, Dell never added it. Stuff like this along with some posts on some of the VOIP providers about their quality not getting posted makes me really suspicious of all these forums. I guess, Folks at Fonality are not like the others and really value the freedom to say anything whether positive or negative or talk about their competitors.
Thanks.
somewhere there is a disconnect
Fri, 01/25/2008 - 4:09pm
I was able to load Elastix, AsteriskNow and Rhinosterisk on the Dell T105. Except Trixbox's latest release - I did not try Trixbox's older release though. It's funny that some distros work and some do not. Where is the problem then? I am currently running Elastix except the Sangoma A200 FXO cards did not get recognized but that may be something else which I have not spent much time to figure out. I would love to install trixbox but it gets hang up at the Keyboard. Prior to that it takes a lot of time loading NV_Sata driver
Any help from Trixbox on Dell T105?
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 3:18pm
I think this has something
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 9:48pm
Well other distros install fine
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 10:01pm
Only trixbox does not install on T105.
I had a successful system using Elastix and Sangoma cards but this was for a backup of a trixbox system, so I needed to install trixbox, thus had to return it to Dell and go a SC440 which worked nice with trixbox. SC440 a littlebit expensive but T105 was not bad either if you dont have to use trixbox.
> Just try "linux
Sat, 03/01/2008 - 5:51pm
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