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Title: Gigabit Network Card
Post by: Steve on June 09, 2003, 05:15:17 PM

I have a Netgear GA622T gigabit network card, which I need to get working in my SME 5.6u.

I have downloaded all the development tools for SME and attempted to compile the module. The module is either for redhat 6.1 or 7.1. However compliation fails as I seem to be missing some header files. They do not seem to be in the sme gcc / gcc+ development tools.

Has anyone been able to compile a module for this card? If not any ideas?

Or as last resort (as this card cost me £100), has anyone been able to get a Gigabit card working with SME5.6u, if so please advise make and model of card, and if the driver is readily available.

Many thanks for your assistance.


Steve Clifton

Title: Re: Gigabit Network Card
Post by: Graeme Fleming on June 09, 2003, 06:33:06 PM

The GA622t card is based on either the National Semiconductor DP83820 or DP83821;  these chips are also used by several other vendors.

You may find that the SMC9462TX driver will work with the Netgear:

http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?action=tech_support_drivers_downloads&categoryID=1&productID=22&fileDownload=0

The driver library include 2.4 kernel support.

HTH

Title: Re: Gigabit Network Card
Post by: Charlie Brady on June 09, 2003, 10:55:58 PM

Graeme Fleming wrote:
>
> The GA622t card is based on either the National Semiconductor
> DP83820 or DP83821;  these chips are also used by several
> other vendors.

If so, the ns83820 driver should "just work". If it does, please send the output of /sbin/lspci -vxx" to smebugs@mitel.com.

If it doesn't, Steve might try an Intel gigabit card from this range:

0x8086   0x1000   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82542 Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x1001   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82543GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x1004   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82543GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x1008   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x1009   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x100c   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82544GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x100d   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82544GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x100e   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x100f   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x1010   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x1011   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086   0x1012   "e1000"   "Intel Corp.|82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller"

The e1000 driver should work for any of these.

Thanks

Charlie

Title: Re: Gigabit Network Card
Post by: steve on June 10, 2003, 11:27:32 AM

Thanks for your help guys.

I have downloaded the smc 2.4 Kernel source code. However I get errors when I comile. Some of the required header diles are missing such as delay.h and fixmap.h

I have downloaded the full dev tools, so not  sure why I am getting the errors.

Any ideas?

Would asnyone be able to compile this for me?

Many thanks

Steve

Title: Re: Gigabit Network Card
Post by: Graeme Fleming on June 10, 2003, 03:43:53 PM

Use Charlies' suggestion - rerun the setup from the admin screen and for the local network choose to the manual option, select the ns83820 driver option for this card.

This saves a lot of messing around compiling drivers.

Please try this and do as Charlie asks and post the result back to Mitel so they can make use of this info for the next release.

HTH

Title: Re: Gigabit Network Card
Post by: Richard Ford on June 11, 2003, 09:42:56 AM

I am about to start the quest for knowledge on getting an intel giga nic working.

An embedded one in the new Dell Power Edge Server.


RF.

Title: Re: Gigabit Network Card
Post by: steve on June 15, 2003, 01:34:51 PM

The National Semiconductior driver worked a treat with the GA622T.

Now transfering files via a tuned samba filesystem at rates comparable to NT (also with a gigabit card).

I will send the log off next week as requested.

Thanks to everyone who offered ther help on a wonderfull product.

Cheers

Steve