Topic: Help! Intel875P MB with Gigabit LAN - SME 6.5 iso says Unkno

[DaveTas]

Running up a SME 6.5 iso on this new Intel 875P MB with a gigbit ethernet lan adapter built in..  Doesn't recognise lan adapter and none of the Intel Gigabit drivers load..

If I run 7beta4 and it does recognise it - can you restore a 6.5 backup onto it ?

(ie New Hardware to replace existing server with Mambo etc)

Dave

[kruhm]

load dmay's giganic drivers

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/6.x/contrib/intel/e1000-5.2.22-sme6.i386.rpm

[DaveTas]

Thanks for the link..  urr  newbie question..  how do I install that rpm when I have no lan..  Can 6.5 mount a USB drive ?   Do I need to build another iso (how..)

[Reinhold]

Dave,

Read this
... for more a newbie may want to have a look atSearchSite with network card driveron the upper right here...
As to the medium you could burn yourself a CDRW or use a floppy with the rpm ...

Happy installing!

Regards
Reinhold

[kruhm]

-download it on a windows machine
-burn to cd
-mount cd
-copy to /
-rpm -Uvh
-reboot

[DaveTas]

Mounted floppy ok.

None of the e100 or e1000 drivers load through console selector.  

any ideas ?

[DaveTas]

Mounted floppy ok.

None of the e100 or e1000 drivers load through console selector.  

any ideas ?

[DaveTas]

I have tried the e1000 rpm of gigabit drivers but no luck with SME 6.5 & Intel LAN.

SME 7.0 recognises it ok -

Its a Intel 875P chipset with the ICH5-5 bridge set

[Reinhold]

Dave,

I just saw that you are still trying..

Please note here that your 875 & ICH-5 (Intel communication hub) itself/alone do not contain the e1000 functionality you have been trying to install!

Look:

- PHY is still needed. ...(Thus & fwiw it may not even be "INTEL" .-)

Check what SME7 identifies at boot and install a driver for that!

Regards
Reinhold

[DaveTas]

Hi Reinhold,  Thanks for your help.

I have loaded 7beta4 back onto the box, and LAN is running.

Where do I find the driver it selected ?

Sorry - I have searched & haven't found the location of config..

Have found other references to the 875P-ICH5 having a Broadcom / BCom 5788, but have found no drivers referenced for Redhat or SME anywhere..   the BCom drivers listed in 6.5RC1 console don't load..


Dave

[Reinhold]

Dave,

For information on hardware found&used by linux you can always check in the dmesg log
This log is accessible via SME-server-manager  / Administration viewlogfiles / choose a log file to view - dmesg / ...
or (much easier via ssh)  /var/log/dmesg

(use mc to go there and F3 or nano /var/log/dmesg)

Note: Scroll down ... Ethernet comes after harddisk/raid and floppy
...it will say something like:

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
r8169: NAPI enabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth1: RTL8169 at 0xce870000, 00:00:ff:cc:bb:22, IRQ 5

..so the above example pc does have a r8169 chipset on irq5
and the driver is r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2
That info and a fast Google search for an rpm should get you up and running...

Regards
Reinhold
(unfortuntely I am 'on the road' with no real access to a SME7.0 setup now - but the above is valid for all linux setups )

[DaveTas]

Hi again,

7beta4 log said Tigon3 5705

I dl'd the 57xx series src rpm from Broadcom

I reloaded SME 6.5

I did
rpm -ivh bcm5700-8.2.18.src.rpm
then
cd /usr/src/redhat
BUT when I did the next step in their instructions;
rpm -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec

It complains of not finding gcc !

Does SME not have gcc ?

The gcc package won't fit on a floppy to transfer across..  <sigh>

[CharlieBrady]

I have loaded 7beta4 back onto the box, and LAN is running.

If the LAN is running, then your troubles are over, right?

Where do I find the driver it selected ?

config show EthernetDriver1

[DaveTas]

Thanks for the 'config show' lead.

I am transferring a 6.5 install to a new box.  Hope to minimise work by restoring a 6.5 backup from old box onto new box. (Yet to work out what work is left after that)  

Still trying to get this gigabit running on 6.5!