Re: Gigabit PCI network card for Qube2

[IT geek 31 <itgeek31%googlemail.com@localhost>]

Hi Mark,

Did you have to configure a special kernel for the Intel Pro/1000 GT
card to be seen?

I have bought one and put it in, but it doesn't show up either at boot
or in dmesg :-(

Any ideas?


Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999

 1.LCD Test................................PASS
 2.Controller Test.........................PASS
 5.Bank 0:.................................64M
 6.Bank 1:.................................64M
 7.Bank 2:.................................64M
 8.Bank 3:.................................64M
 9.Serial Test.............................PASS
10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**Unknown Card**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1
Decompressing done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Decompressing -- done.

>> NetBSD/cobalt 5.1 Bootloader, Revision 0.9 [@0x80f00000]
>> (builds%b8.netbsd.org@localhost, Sat Nov  6 14:35:01 UTC 2010)
>> Model:               Cobalt Qube 2
>> Memory:              262144 k
>> PROM boot string:    root=/dev/hda1 ro
Boot [wd0a:netbsd]:
Loading: wd0a:netbsd
3795200+312180 [218192+211217]=0x453ee4
Starting at 0x80001000

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
    2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #0: Sat Nov  6 14:46:10 UTC 2010
        
builds%b8.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RELEASE/cobalt/201011061943Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RELEASE/src/ss/arch/cobalt/compile/GENERIC
Cobalt Qube 2
total memory = 256 MB

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On 31 December 2010 06:22, Mark Smith <markinnz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Well I've put the Intel Pro/1000 GT into the Qube2 and it does indeed work :-)
> This is the output of ifconfg:
>
> qube2# ifconfig -a
> tlp0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        address: 00:10:e0:00:47:ff
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>        status: no carrier
> wm0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>       
>  capabilities=2bf80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Tx,UDP6CSUM_Tx>
>        enabled=0
>        address: 00:15:17:0e:b8:e2
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT 
> full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause)
>        status: active
>        inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>        inet6 fe80::215:17ff:fe0e:b8e2%wm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> tlp1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        address: 00:10:e0:00:48:0f
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>        status: no carrier
>
>
> Good that a lot of the checksums are done on the board as hat'll probably 
> help the little CPU of the Qube a bit.
>
> I'll do some performance testing shortly, but I still have issues getting OSX 
> to play nice with NFS on NetBSD (error code 36 issues) ... any tips ?
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 27/12/2010, at 11:21 PM, IT geek 31 wrote:
>
>> Please come back and let us know how you get on with the Pro/1000 GT
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27 December 2010 04:40, Mark Smith <markinnz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 19/12/2010, at 4:12 PM, ..I'd rather be coding ASM! wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a TP-Link gigE in my 2700 for a time with a recompiled kernel. Sadly
>>> though it just didn`t have the horse power to keep it fed.
>>>
>>> I was impressed that it could move about 19mb/s off usb2 disk though.
>>>
>>> Al.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>> Which TP-link board do you have ?  I tried a TP-Link TG-3269 (rev 3.2) and
>>> it does not work at all in the Qube2 (or the Qube3, but does work in a PC)
>>> It seems the PCI bus in the Qube2/3 does not even power the board up :-(  ..
>>> I'm wondering if the board is actually a 3.3volt board even though it has
>>> both notches for 3.3 and 5volts.
>>> I assume the PCI bus in the Qube2 is 5v only ?
>>> The serial output of the Qube2 is this :
>>>
>>> Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
>>> Built Wed Mar  3 21:26:25 PST 1999
>>>
>>>  1.LCD Test................................PASS
>>>  2.Controller Test.........................PASS
>>>  5.Bank 0:.................................64M
>>>  6.Bank 1:.................................64M
>>>  7.Bank 2:.................................64M
>>>  8.Bank 3:.................................64M
>>>  9.Serial Test.............................PASS
>>> 10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
>>> 12.IDE Test................................PASS
>>> 13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
>>> 16.RTC Test................................PASS
>>> BOOTLOADER: trying to boot from partition /dev/hda1
>>> Decompressing  done
>>> Decompressing  done.
>>>
>>> I'll try out an Intel Pro/1000 GT next and see if that goes, but I'm
>>> interested to see what else is know to work
>>>
>
>