Re: Gigabit PCI network card for Qube2

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

Actually, my mistake - I get the following in dmesg:

Intel i82541PI Gigabit Ethernet (ethernet network, revision 0x05) at
pci0 dev 10 function 0 not configured




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
>>>
>
>