[CentOS] Hardware Compatibility List (looking for a gigabit nicon RHEL4)

Mon Jul 14 08:06:26 UTC 2008
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Duffner
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 3:57 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hardware Compatibility List (looking 
> for a gigabit nicon RHEL4)
> 
> John R Pierce schrieb:
> > Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >> Where should I start on my quest to find gigabit ethernet 
> cards for 
> >> all our workstations?
> >>   
> >
> > Intel pro1000 cards or onboard chips. 
> >
> 
> I'm not sure if RHEL4 has support for the latest Intel Pro 
> 1000 cards - though Intel cards are definitely recommended. 
> Just make sure the kernel knows about the chipset. Buying 
> cards one or two revisions behind the current model via ebay 
> can also yield some nice savings.
> FreeBSD lists the supported chipsets in the man-page of the driver:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&apropos=0&sektion=
> 4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html
> 
> I'm not sure if people at RedHat (or people writing drivers 
> for the linux-kernel in general) actually know how to write a 
> man-page - but I'm sure this information is somewhere in the 
> kernel-documentation - or in the driver source...

Will look more into this.

> Do your workstations have PCIe or PCI-X slots?
> 

We have all three vsrisnts in our midst.

PCI

PCI Express
 and 

PCI-X

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