Topic: 5.6 and Dell Poweredge 600sc nic

[Bill Gannon]

Hi,
I just purchased a new Poweredge 600sc and Im trying to install E-smith 5.6.  I have both the onboard nic (gig I believe) and I requested the additional nic (Intel Pro 100S NIC)  I want to set one up as the internal interface and one as the interface to the internet.  How do I go about this?
The installer says it detected 2 nics and lists them as:

unknown (driver unknown)
and
Inter Corp.|82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (driver eepro100)

Do I need to install a driver?  If so hwo do I get past the setup to the point where I can DL a driver?  Is the detected dirver correct?  Any input is welcome and thank you very much

[Ben Morrisson]

Had the same prob.
easiest process is to disable the onboard card
and install an additional compatible card
$20 card is cheaper than your time to configure a driver for the gig interface

[Ergin]

Maybe this could help

http://lordsfam.net/downloads/production/intel_drivers/

[Craig]

the files found at the above location works, you want e1000, not e100.

[Kevin Tollison]

Ben,

It take about 2 minutes to install the RPM listed above and reboot.  I have about  8 of these server running with this driver.  One is on a full gigabit network (switches and all) there is no additional configuration beyond intalling the RPM and telling the server to use that driver to get the full gigabit speeds.

Kevin

[Jim]

Looks like this link is dead any other links?

[Ergin]

Try

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/Intel/sme56/

[Steve Bush]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=15940.msg61525#msg61525

The driver is already installed.
You just need to manually set either EthernetDriver1 or EthernetDriver2.
My servers have two e1000 Nics, so I set both.

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set EthernetDriver1 e1000
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set EthernetDriver2 e1000
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save

I rebooted the server and the NICs both work....