On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Gregory P. Ennis PoMec@pomec.net wrote:
It is interesting in that the nic interface on the mother board is listed as : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit
The nic interface on the mother board works fine. Based on this I would have expected the st1000spex to work perfectly. The mmi entry is listed as R8169 for lsmod output, I am not really sure what this means.
Greg
OK, I do have lspci on this system; I am going to it down and put the st1000spex back in the slot, and will send the lspci out put after I reboot.
The best way to identify your network device is to get the Vendor:Device ID pairing. Please see the ELRepo FAQ #4 for details:
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I have not found a solution, and in fact have made things worse.
This machine is a Gateway SX2370, and I am about to conclude there is a bios problem. I am now unable to boot the machine when I have the st1000spex in the pci-e slot. I can boot the machine when the on-board nic is disabled with the st1000spex in place, but when I try to boot with both I do not even get the bios screen.
This has me stumped for now
Greg
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Everyone,
I logged on to the Gateway.com website and connected to their support chat and was told that the Gateway SX2370 would not function with two or more nic cards. I find that hard to believe, but I am making no progress getting the bios to identify a second ethernet card. At this point I will probably turn this machine back to Fry's for a different model.
Greg
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Everyone,
I finally figured out a fix to this problem. I had the StarTech ST1000SPEX gigabit Ethernet tested in a microsoft machine and they worked fine, but every time I tried to add them in a new Centos 6.2 install the machine would even boot after the second time of trying to boot. I thought this may have been a problem with the bios if the Gateway computer I was using so I tried a new install with an HP what appeared to me to be a different bios. Unfortunately, the result was the same.
On a fluke of a last resort, a give up attempt, I purchased another manufacturer's card from TrendNet and everything worked as it was supposed to work. The chipset was the same "RTL8111/8168B" for both the TrendNet card and teh StarTech card.
I am not sure what caused the problem, but I wanted to report on the list that I had a great deal of difficulty with the StarTech ST1000SPEX card with a Gateway, and HP machine.
Greg Ennis