Centos 5 Gigabit ethernet advise needed

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Centos 5 Gigabit ethernet advise needed

Post by ikhan42 » 2009/07/07 11:37:53

Hi everyone,

I am setting up a NAS server for a friend of mine and am using Centos 5 for the OS. The motherboard is a ASUS p5q pro motherboard that has an attansic L1 NIC that doesnt seem to work under Centos 5. I have installed an old INTEL 82557 10/100 card in the machine that works fine however my friend want Gigabit Ethernet speed. I am looking to see what cards work on this machine he doesnt want to spend too much more money as he has already spent $2000 on a 8 Hotswap RAID 5, Intel Dual core server with Adaptec SAS/SATA raid controller card in it and has blown his budget.

Can anyone advise what generic NIC's work on Centos 5 ie DLINK, NETGEAR, RealTek, Broadcom SMC. Or is there a HCL of what is supported on Centos 5 as far as NICS are concerned.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
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Re: Centos 5 Gigabit ethernet advise needed

Post by AlanBartlett » 2009/07/07 12:09:16

[quote]The motherboard is a ASUS p5q pro motherboard that has an attansic L1 NIC that doesnt seem to work under Centos 5.[/quote]
Please check the Vendor:Device ID pairing returned by the following command --

[code]
[b]/sbin/lspci -n | grep "$(/sbin/lspci | awk '/net/ { print $1 }')"[/b]
[/code]
-- with those listed on the [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs]Device IDs[/url] page at [url=//elrepo.org]ELRepo[/url].

You may find that the [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ]kABI tracking[/url] [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-atl1]kmod-atl1 package[/url] will be appropriate for your NIC.

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Re: Centos 5 Gigabit ethernet advise needed

Post by ikhan42 » 2009/07/07 22:11:56

Allanjbartlett,

Thanks for the reply the following was the output from the command
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
I have looked at the link at ElRepo but the number returned is totally different to what Elrepo has listed. The format on Elrepo is 0000:0000 does this output make any sense to you ?

Thanks again for your help
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Re: Centos 5 Gigabit ethernet advise needed

Post by toracat » 2009/07/07 22:32:44

Let me make a guess ... you missed the [b]-n[/b] option ! :-o

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Re: Centos 5 Gigabit ethernet advise needed

Post by ikhan42 » 2009/07/07 22:38:24

Allanjbartlett,

I got a driver after all there was a bunch to pick from and I tried each one and abracadabra it worked.

Thanks Again for all your help.

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Re: Centos 5 Gigabit ethernet advise needed

Post by AlanBartlett » 2009/07/08 08:01:48

[quote]I got a driver after all there was a bunch to pick from and I tried each one and abracadabra it worked.[/quote]
There are five in total -- three for the 32-bit architecture and two for the 64-bit architecture. The correct version is the one that matches the system's architecture (32- or 64-bit) and kernel type (standard, xen and -- if 32-bit -- PAE). To decide upon the correct package to install, you would look at the output of an [b]uname -rmi[/b] command. ;-)

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Thanks Again for all your help.
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You're welcome. :-)

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