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Intel Pro 1000MT Dual NIC ?

Hi,
I have a Dell PowerEdge 1850 server on wich I am trying to install ASL v6.100 on. The server has 2x Intel Pro 1000MT dual Nics in PCI-e slots, and 2 onboard nics.

During installation only 2 onboard nics is detected by Astaro. The Pro 1000MT dual nics are not detected.
I have checked the HCL and the Pro 1000MT cards are here !

What is going on ? Do I need to do something special to make this work ?
Its very frustrating to buy hardware on the HCL - and discover that it does'nt work with Astaro.

Please advice.

Best Regards
Jonas

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0 KKnecht over 20 years ago

Using DELL PowerEdge server as ASL with 2 onboard NICs and 2 Intel PCI DualPort NICs, so 6 ports in summary.
Working fine since V5, also V6.1.
Not in the office, so don't know hardware details, but remember something that BIOS settings had to be checked well.
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0 Simon Shaw over 20 years ago in reply to KKnecht

Theres a few different flavours of 1000MT cards it seems.

I think they changed chip somewhere along the line...
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0 DrJones over 20 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

KKnecht - do you have more info on these BIOS settings ?

Best Regards,
Jonas
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0 DrJones over 20 years ago in reply to DrJones

If I run a LSPCI - I get this ;

Onboard NICs ;
0000:08:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
0000:09:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)

Pro 1000MT Nics ;
0000:0b:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 108a (rev 03)
0000:0b:04.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 108a (rev 03)

Best Regards,
Jonas
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0 ALT over 20 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

I want buy some nics with dual port or quad port, but I want know if Intel's nic will work. Whant brand of nic's do you recommend buy ????
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0 seezer over 20 years ago in reply to ALT

ALT: got an intel quad 1000MT - works fine using e1000 driver. (tested since the V6betas)
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0 DrJones over 20 years ago in reply to seezer

Hi Seezer,

Is your Intel card based on PCI-e ?

Regards,
Jonas
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0 FatAndy over 20 years ago in reply to DrJones

Hi DrJones,
Intel has only PCI-X version of quad-port 1000 MT Server adapter based on two 82546 chips, please see here:
http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-012904.htm
And PCIe is available with 8257x chips only:
http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/ethernet/linecard_ec.htm
Unfortunately I can't see any separate boards produced by Intel itself based on 8257x chips, only LOMs...

I have the same problem BTW with 82573 LOM chips on PCI Express bus and ASG 6.102
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0 FatAndy over 20 years ago in reply to DrJones

Hi DrJones,
Intel has only PCI-X version of quad-port 1000 MT Server adapter based on two 82546 chips, please see here:
http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-012904.htm
And PCIe is available with 8257x chips only:
http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/ethernet/linecard_ec.htm
Unfortunately I can't see any separate boards produced by Intel itself based on 8257x chips, only LOMs...

I have the same problem BTW with 82573 LOM chips on PCI Express bus and ASG 6.102
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0 buckmeister over 20 years ago in reply to FatAndy

Hi,

we have exactly the same problem here with a DELL 1850...

It's definitely an issue with the pci device IDs... the new NIC has the ID 108A which is not supported (according to modinfo) by the e1000 module version which comes with ASL 6.102.

However, there is a newer version of the e1000 kernel module on the intel website (V 6.2.15) which does cover the new device IDs but I have know idea how to install this one [:(]

Does anybody has a clue how to compile this new version of the e1000 module for usage with the ASL kernel version 2.6.10-33-SMP...

thanks in advance,
best regards
buckmeister
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0 BarryG over 20 years ago in reply to buckmeister

Email support, they might do it for you.

Barry
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0 BarryG over 19 years ago in reply to FatAndy

Has this been resolved?

We need to add a quad-port card to our 5.209 firewall, and I am looking at the Intel card with part # PWLA8494MT
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=475069

Thanks,
Barry
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