[CentOS] AT-2972SX

Thu May 2 20:07:49 UTC 2013
Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>

To close the loop on this -- the card worked fine with the built-in tg3
driver in RHEL 6.

Ray

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:55:24PM -0400, Yves S. Garret wrote:
> What's weird is that they packaged the actual binaries as a bunch
> of small ISOs.  At this point I'd probably build them from source if
> all else fails :) .
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Yves S. Garret
> <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > My gut guess is that it's just going to work.  Most of the networking
> > stuff most Linux distros have down pat (unless we're talking about
> > something really rare/weird).
> >
> > I looked at the file itself, the license is GPL.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:05:24PM -0400, Yves S. Garret wrote:
> >> > Well, at least they have RPM files for you that you can just
> >> > install.  You could always just try and see what happens :) .
> >> >
> >> > http://www.alliedtelesis.com/p-1856.html
> >>
> >> Yep -- definitely.  We don't have the cards yet and am just trying to
> >> determine if they'll work easily or not or if we should push to order
> >> something different.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ray
> >>
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Anyone know off the top of their heads if this (AT-2972SX) fiber
> >> > > network card will work out of the box with CentOS 6.x?
> >> > >
> >> > > Sounds like it's a Broadcom-based card, so perhaps it will, or maybe
> >> > > something exists for it in elrepo?
> >> > >
> >> > > Hoping to avoid needing to build custom drivers from source.
> >> > >
> >> > > Ray