Re: Gigabit PCI network card for Qube2

[Mark Smith <markinnz%gmail.com@localhost>]

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
>>