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HP Color Laserjet issue
Since this site is a Q&A for system administrators and desktop support professionals I'd decided to post my question here. Not sure if this is the best stackexchange website for this.
We have an ...
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ESXi 5.0 iSCSI Timeout increase to upgrade Equallogic Firmware
As I understand it one can upgrade the firmware on a Dell Equallogic server in about 15 seconds and it can be done whilst an ESXi host is connected and VMs are running but that the iSCSI timeout value ...
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Updating OpenBoot PROM on Sun Fire v440
After i have updated ALOM firmware on Sun Fire v440, i decided to update OpenBoot PROM, but when i try to load the patch using
boot disk /flash-update-SunFire440
i get:
SILO
Fatal Error: Multiple ...
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Updating ALOM firmware Sun Fire v440
I have Sun Fire v440 server with old bios (or ALOM?) release. So the fans installed in the server make a lot of noise, even if processors aren't heated.
I have some image files to update bios ...
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Dell OpenManage says my firmware is too old?
My Dell OpenManage Server Administrator application has an alert and is telling me my firmware (and driver?) versions are not high enough.
Should I be concerned / what issue might this cause?
I ...
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Creating a bootable PXE image from a dos utility firmware updater
I was wondering if it was possible to make a PXE bootable image from a dos utility firmware. For some specifics the firmware updater is usually to be installed on a USB stick. I have all the flat ...
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LaserJet M1522nF firmware was corrupted during the update
I have a LaserJet M1522nF, and the problem when I working on is that it is freezing every time so I decide to update the firmware. During the updating the device was down because of electricity so I ...
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How to get Sun X4100 Firmware updates from Oracle?
This document directs how to get there, but it is for the old Sun website. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19569-01/820-1188-12/core_ilom_firmware.html#50413605_67571
Download the flash image ...
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How to obtain Cisco IOS firmware?
Quick and simple question, but I've not been able to find an answer around.
I have a Cisco ADSL router (model 877).
I don't have any Cisco support contract.
How can I obtain an updated firmware for ...
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Oracle automatic patch download
I need to update/patch the firmware of a lot of Sun/Oracle systems quite frequently. To do that I first need to download the latest firmware snapshot by hand from Oracle's saggy and unsophisticated ...
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Configure DD-WRT / wireless router firmware online
Is there a way to configure firmware such as DD-WRT for a wireless router online or through a software program prior to loading it on the device?
For example, let's say that I want to setup a ...
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Dell Poweredge 2950 firmware upgrade bricked DRAC 5
We recently tried to upgrade the firmware on a DRAC 5 in a Poweredge 2950 with the latest "Update package for Red Hat Linux" as available here.
This failed half way though with an error and ...
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HP ProLiant firmware update policies/schedule/strategy
I'm looking for a few ideas on how to keep HP server firmware up-to-date. How do other administrators keep the firmware revisions in check? Do you upgrade on a regular basis? Do you only run updates ...
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Failed Dell PERC H700 Firmware Upgrade with Windows 2008 R2 BitLocker Enabled
I attempted to use the Dell openManage Server Update Utility within Windows to update the firmware on the Dell PERC H700 controller and was given the following error:
'The update package cannot be ...
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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter
I will be getting the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter soon and was wondering what peoples experience has been with it so far. My main goal for implementing this is to have better ...
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Debian Squeeze and RAID firmware after kernel update
I've installed Debian Squeeze on my server several days ago. During install process installer asked me to provide USB flash drive with firmware aic94xx-seq.fw. All went fine. Today I installed all ...
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is it possible to load a routers firmware into a vmware (or similar) virtual machine to test before loading it to the actual hardware?
I want to load some router firmware onto a virtual machine to run some testing/analysis without actually putting it on the router hardware. Is this possible and how would I go about doing it? Thanks ...
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Recommending simple appliance for DansGuardian, iptables, snort inline [closed]
I'm currently using a Linksys E2000 with dd-wrt. I'd like to add DansGuardian for Content Filtering and snort-inline for IPS; but those require a more powerful box (mainly, more storage). Can you ...
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System Seller Firmware Update Policy IBM
I've heard that IBM expects from their sellers/partners to update machines before shipping to customers to the most recent firmware (uEFI/AMM/IMM/RSA etc.) releases. Can anyone comment on that one?
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Flashing Cisco SPA942 phone with SPA504G firmware
I have a Cisco SPA942 phone, which is no longer supported by Cisco. It's running the latest firmware available for this phone: 6.1.5(a). Cisco replaced the SPA942 with the SPA504G, which is almost ...
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Dell Power Edge Diags and Firmware Updates from a WinPE environment
I am looking for a way to upgrade all firmware on Dell PE servers from within a WinPe environment. We are a reseller and I already have an environment set up to transfer ownership of the servers to ...
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bootable CD to upgrade firmware
We have a DL380 G6 and we want to put the latest BIOS firmware on a bootable CD-ROM.
The bootable USB installer that HP provides works great, but we want a bootable CD-ROM instead, because we have ...
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HP Procurve Access Point thinks it is another model
I have two HP Procurve Wireless Access Point 420, model number J8130B. One of them works great, and the other isn't able to have its wireless configured. I have tried a factory reset of ...
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Update BIOS on Sun Fire X4150 server
I have some Sun Fire X4150 servers with a very old BIOS release (1ADQW015), which seems to have some compatibility problems with WMware ESX Server 3.5 and Windows 2008 R2 virtual machines; so I want ...
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Easily patch Dell firmware without OS support?
On our HP servers, HP provides an image we can put on a USB key (or CD), boot from and patch the all the firmware in the system. On our Linux Dell servers there's a convenient yum repository we can ...
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What UEFI-based machines are available in the market today?
I am looking for Client systems that have UEFI firmware. What are the existing systems that can be bought in the market today?
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Where can I find old versions of linksys router firmware?
I've had a headache of a weekend after upgrading to the latest firmware for my wrt54g. Suffice it to say I'm not satisfied with the latest version. Now I'm looking around for the previous version of ...
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Adaptec 2420SA RAID 1 rebuild 66% after 1 week
We're running a 500GB RAID 1 on an Adaptec 2420SA - 2x500GB Hitachi Drives. It suddenly crashed and required a rebuild -- was not even booting. It's only at 66% after about a week. Very frustrated. ...
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Is mismatched firmware on drives in a raid-6 a bad thing?
I recently expanded a raid-1 to a raid-6 with six drives. I ordered all four of the new drives from the same place, and all of them were advertised to be the same drives as the original two--Seagate ...
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I flashed my DS4700 with a 7 series firmware, now my DS4300 cannot read the disks I moved to that location. Can I low-level format these disk to restore the DAC?
In preparation for adding a number of 1Tb SATA disks to our DS4700 I flashed the controller firmware from a 6 series (which only supports up to 2Tb logical drives) to a 7 series (which supports larger ...
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Is it safe to flash LSI MegaRAID firmware from within MSM on a 'live' system?
When does the firmware actually get reflashed? Next time the server is restarted? I don't want to interrupt services but I'd love to get the latest update out of the way. (It fixes read/writes for ...
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NIC firmware version on my DL380 G5
I am trying to figure out what is my current NIC firmware version.
If I run the latest firmware upgrade from HP, I get the following:
It doesn't tell me the current version.
If I try to check it ...
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Centralised configuration management for basic linksys routers?
Does anyone know if its possible to install a custom router firmware, such as dd-wrt and then use a central config management tool to push/pull changes? The setup here involves each office having ...
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How can I modify the Ubuntu Server install CD to add a hardware driver?
I found this link to modify an Ubuntu install CD.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization
However, I want to put the Adaptec aic94xx RAID driver onto the disk so that my RAID ...
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Linksys WRT54G - Which firmware is best for sharing internet connections with several seperate offices?
I am looking into buying a Linksys WRT54G series to use as my router, DNS and Firewall.
I would like to be able to share my internet connection with a couple of other small organisations too and have ...
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uEFI Remote Mangement
Is there a sane method to set uEFI settings (for machines with no OS) from a remote machine? I've just spent hours for changing the boot order of a handful of machines. The extended boot up times for ...
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Cisco Linksys SLM2024/2048 firmware update [closed]
The initial firmware is 1.0.1 the new firmware is 2.0.0.8
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/csbss/slm2024/release/notes/SLM2024-SLM2048_Release_Note.pdf
Release notes say "Supports new ...
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On boot firmware request for intel GMA 3100 chipset timing out
I am currently in the process of installing a Gentoo linux box with a Vanilla 2.6.29-r5 kernel with gentoo-xen-kernel patches in order to run the Xen Hypervisor.
After rebooting with the new kernel, ...
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Recommended 256 GB SSD for Linux servers
I need some relatively-affordable 256 GB SSD drives for a Linux application where fast seek performance (many IOPS) is more important than sequential throughput. The ratio of reads to writes is more ...
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What firmware to choose for ASUS WL-500GP v1
I've found several firmwares out there: OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato and Oleg's. I'm wondering what is the best choice?
Router is working in the home network (desktop through wires, laptop uses WiFi). ...
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Adic Scalar 100 (Dell Powervault 136T) drive firmware downgrade problem
I've got an Adic Scalar 100 (also commonly rebranded by dell as powervault 136T). recently one drive failed and we put in a spare LTO2 drive into the changer.
Unfortunately, the drive has slightly ...
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.DLL error when installing firmware for Dell PE2900 PERC 5/i RAID
I'm installing a new RAID firmware version (2.5.0) for a Dell PE2900 which has a PERC 5/i RAID setup. When I run the installer, it gives the message "The procedure entry point RegDeleteKeyExA could ...
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How to fix port forwarding on Linksys T-Mobile router that was vendor upgraded to v1.0.20
Linksys has flashed my t-mobile branded router model number WRTU54G-TM from v1.0.15 to v1.0.20 and in doing so broken all the port forwarding. I tried reflashing it back to v1.0.15 and that fixes the ...
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Firmware Best Practices and Update Schedules
Firmware receives very little attention when it comes to updates. Out of sight, out of mind.
Many devices: RAID controllers, NICs, chipsets, and even hard drives, get some benefit from being ...
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Are there freezing issues with the Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS anymore?
I found this hard drive on NewEgg:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (bare drive) - OEM
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OSS Router firmwares
DD-WRT, Open WRT , Tomato or Third-party firmware projects ?
What are the compelling reasons to choose between these?
I used to be a great DD-WRT fan until I realized that the author was ...
