Topic: Gigabit Lan Cards

[mike_mattos]

I recently tried the SME7 sk98lin drivers to run  Marvell adapter on an ASUS mother board, but the network isn't loading.

My web search was discouraging, to say the least, Marvel suggests re-compiling the kernel!

Rather that re-invent the wheel, are there any gigabit adapters that are recommended for SME7 ?   I'm considering the INTEL 1000, which has a link at this site to an installation rpm,  any others recommended?

thx

mike

[jfarschman]

Hi,

  We briefly had trouble with the same card.  Dropped and in favor of an e1000.  I have also had good sucess with linksys gigabit cards.

[mike_mattos]

what is an e1000 ?

thx

[Boris]

e1000 driver is for Intel 1000 family of adapters. Works great on many servers that I've installed.

[bcliburn]

Has anyone tried a netgear GA311 gigabit NIC yet?

[cc_skavenger]

I have had great luck with connect gear gigabit nics.  Anything with a realtek 8169 chipset will work.

[Boris]

Has anyone tried a netgear GA311 gigabit NIC yet?

I have and it worked fine too.

[gippsweb]

We have a Reltek 8169 card in ours, but it isn't all that quick. (Maybe my setup). But I'm not getting the system lockups under load that others are having with centos 4.