Topic: Motherboard with two Intel® 82559ER ethernet

[Jaime Nebrera]

Hi all:

  Searching the web I have found a motherboard with 2 ethernets on board. The problem is they are based on Intel® 82559ER chipset (ie Intel Pro)

  I have searched the phorums and found that sometimes is recomended to use the e100 driver instead of eepro100 that ESGS (4.1.2) detects by default.

  In both cases it seems these drivers are a little tricky to work with and it seems that working with 2 of them in the same computer is not recomended. Is this right? Can somebody advice?

  Thanks in advance.

  Regards.

PD.- No, I can't change to another board as it's part of a full integrated system.

[Des Dougan]

Jaime,

I have a couple of servers running with two EtherExpress 100 NICs (external). They were identified flawlessly by (respectively) 4.1.2 and 5.1 (alpha and beta). I have found them to be solid cards.

Des Dougan

[anatole]

This eth card is the intel product
Intel® PRO/100+ Management adapter.

you can use the default ditected driver  by e-smith and there should be no problem.

If you have concerns,  you may want to try the drivers of intel

You can search at intel.com under support drivers for this
card, below is the link to the source file

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/proc/T8Clearance.asp?url=/2896/eng/e100-1.6.29.tar.gz

To compile the new driver read HOWTO by Darell May
link address is
http://www.myezserver.com/docs/mitel/kernel-src-howto.html
When you have all the files needed to compile the driver

Just type as "rpm --tb e100-1.6.29.tar.gz" you should
have you binary rpm in the directory /usr/src/redhat/REBUILD/RPM/i386

Next before intalling the the rpm  rename the original e100.o driver to something else like e100.o.orig.

Install the rpm.  if there are errors use rpm -ivh --force
Then you can choose the new intel  e100 driver as the default driver by manual
configuration in the configuration setup

Tip. If yor server uses up large CPU cycles try to enable  the CPU saving
setting for the lan card.  Read the readme.txt.

Hope this helps.

If you need the binaries I have the compiled and source rpm copies for Mitel (e-smith) server version 5.0
 
Anatole

[Jaime Nebrera]

OK,

  I just pointed this out as I have seen many posts in the list related to this card and some people find some dificulties. RH even says it's not advised to use 2 of them in the same system. I will study this.

  Thanks