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tialis
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 Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:04 am Post subject: GigE NIC for E250 |
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Hi guys
I've acquired a Sun Enterprise 250. It's got mostly standard hardware right now, 2x400Mhz Sparc II's, 1.25GB ram, etc, etc. I want to pick up a good GigE NIC for this box, but I'm on a tight budget and naturally can't go with an original Sun card. Any suggestions on a nice little gem that'll perform well for <=$100? It's currently running a 2.6.8 kernel.
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TheDebugger
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| Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:25 am Post subject: Re: GigE NIC for E250 |
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| tialis wrote: | Hi guys
I've acquired a Sun Enterprise 250. It's got mostly standard hardware right now, 2x400Mhz Sparc II's, 1.25GB ram, etc, etc. I want to pick up a good GigE NIC for this box, but I'm on a tight budget and naturally can't go with an original Sun card. Any suggestions on a nice little gem that'll perform well for <=$100? It's currently running a 2.6.8 kernel.
Thanks in advance |
I'm running a SUN Blade 2000 using a
| Code: | $> lspci
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0001:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 02) |
It works very well and is fully supported by the kernel (2.6.15-gentoo-r7). I don't know about prices, though. |
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cyan051
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:46 am Post subject: |
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simmilar box [e250 with 2x400mhz cpus, 1gb ram]...
running kernel 2.6.13.
dlink dge-528t works out-of-the-box without problem...
| Code: | 0001:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 008d2740
I/O ports at 1fe02011c00 [size=256]
Memory at 1ff80040000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at 1ff80060000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 |
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gust4voz
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You'd do well to report success/failure stories so that http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/hwlist.xml can get updated and people know what to get and what not.
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cyan051
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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i just posted the following info...
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Vendor Model Chipset Kernel System Working Comments Submitter
Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 HPT366 2.6.13 Sun E250 Yes Works fine, bootable, no RAID support cyan051
Network Adapter
D-Link System Inc. DGE-528T R8169 2.6.13 Sun E250 Yes Works fine, not bootable cyan051
Video Adapters
3DLabs Permedia II GLINT 2.6.13 Sun E250 Yes Xorg works fine, no FB support cyan051 |
btw, how about implementing a submit form for hwlist, so it can be updaded online directly?
.cheers.
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gust4voz
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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We usually try to verify things a bit to avoid bogus reports, since some people may choose to buy stuff based on those listings (even though we have a disclaimer about such behaviour).
There's also the ricer factor, "it boots, it's super stable!" when it may not be so, with respect to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/sunhw.xml
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audiotecnicality
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Location: Northern CA, USA
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: GigE NIC for E250 |
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| TheDebugger wrote: | | tialis wrote: | Hi guys
I've acquired a Sun Enterprise 250. It's got mostly standard hardware right now, 2x400Mhz Sparc II's, 1.25GB ram, etc, etc. I want to pick up a good GigE NIC for this box, but I'm on a tight budget and naturally can't go with an original Sun card. Any suggestions on a nice little gem that'll perform well for <=$100? It's currently running a 2.6.8 kernel.
Thanks in advance |
I'm running a SUN Blade 2000 using a
| Code: | $> lspci
[...]
0001:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 02) |
It works very well and is fully supported by the kernel (2.6.15-gentoo-r7). I don't know about prices, though. |
I have two older boxes (P3, 833MHz) that I'm going to be using as webservers, and the Intel 82544EI GigE (Optical) between them to RSync. Having problems getting them to communicate. I've loaded the e1000 kernel module in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and the NIC is recognized as eth0, but when I set manual IP's it won't ping. They work just fine when I boot both boxes on the Gentoo LiveCD. Any suggestions, or is this just a matter of doing an lsmod in the LiveCD and modules.autoloading those modules?
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