Topic: Has enyone ever tried an Intel 1000MT Gigabit networkcard in

[Mike]

Has enyone ever tried a Intel Gigabit (1000MT/8390MT) networkcard in the SME 6?
Does this card work directly or do you have to patch the kernel to get it working.

[Reinhold]

Hi Mike,

Haven't tried it myself but the authority on PCI drivers for Linux:

http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#gigabit  (that's Donald Becker ...guess you've seen the name .-) says:
Intel Pro/1000 Gigabit.
Contact Intel directly for the Linux driver for their gigabit card. They have a e1000 driver distributed under license terms that have changed over time.
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and the RH 7.3 manual even lists "e1000.o"  as the driver module:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-modules-ethernet.html

No guarantees from my side but:  it's most likely recognized out of the box then...

Reinhold

[Derek]

I can confirm that this card is recognized out of the box with SME 6.0.

[ryan]

I the rpm:  e1000-4.4.19sme56.i386.rpm works great on 5.6.  You might give it a shot if you have not got the server up yet.  I can email it to you if it is no longer online.  I can't remember where I downloaded from as it has been about 6 months.  

ryan

[Steve Bush]

SME5.6 has the driver built in for the Intel 1000MT card, it just doesn't autodetect it.  There's a thread on the forums that discusses how to manually set SME up for this card without installing a new driver.

SME6.0b3 fixes this.  It is autodetected without any issues.
I have used Dell server's with the NIC built in...
PE2600 and PE400SC are two examples.
Addon Intel NICS work as well.

[Michael Herger]

Can confirm this for MSI server barebones (MS-9211) and SME6.

Michael

[Mike]

Thanks guys, for all your responces.

Put in my order for a bunch of Intel 1000MT cards.

Thanks again, Mike