Topic: Trying to get Gigabit NIC working

[wjhobbs]

I have acquired an Intel Pro/1000 GT adapter. Based on other posts here, I believe this card is supported by the e1000 driver which is in Centos (and therefore SME).

On a SME 7.0 system I installed the card, disabled the on-board NIC, and went through an 'upgrade'. One package was changed during the upgrade (presumably the NIC driver).

However, when the reboot completed, network connectivity was gone. I re-enabled the onboard NIC and upgraded -- and network connectivity was back.

The card is there but is an "unknown device" -- see output from lspci:

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 VE
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at f5100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1376
        Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 9
        Memory at f5140000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Memory at f5120000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at 4040 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.

The onboard NIC is listed first.

Any suggestions for getting this card to work with a standard driver? (I don't want to mess with compiling a downloaded driver.)

Thanks.

John

[dsemuk]

What version of SME did you upgrade from and to?  RC3 to SME7 final?

Dave

[wjhobbs]

Hi Dave,

I had upgraded to SME 7.0 final before starting this exercise.

I then went through the "upgrade" process with a SME 7.0 Final CD to implement the NIC changes. I understand this is the process to follow whenever the hardware changes.

John

[wjhobbs]

Problem Resolved!  

It appears that my understanding of how a hardware upgrade should be handled was incorrect. Refer to Bug #1696 for a description of the process I followed to get the card recognized.

Thanks to Charlie and Shad for pointing the way.

John