[CentOS] Sun Microsystems Quad gigabit ethernet nic compatibility

On Jan 2, 2015 12:40 PM, "SilverTip257" <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Rafeal Stewart <mechy2k2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 22:01 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> > > On 1/1/2015 9:41 PM, mechy2k2000 wrote:
> > > > Hello I am thinking of buying this card to and wanted  to know if
this
> > NIC
> > > > is supported. The card is a Sun Microsystems PCI-X Quad-Port Gigabit
> > > > Ethernet Adapter QGEXPCI 501-6738-10. Can't find any info on how
well
> > the
> > > > card plays with centos and also proxmox ve (if any of you use that
> > distro )
> > >
> > > I've not tried that card on anything other than Sun UltraSparc running
> > > Solaris 9 and 10, but rumor has it Linux has a 'cassini' driver that
> > > supports the Sun GigaSwift NIC on those.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I see. My gut is starting to tell me its not worth the time to replace
> > it, if this Sun NIC doesnt play nice with Linux. I also intend to use
> > the card with Proxmox VE which is debian based.
> >
>
> Why not instead buy an Intel Quad port NIC?
> Something you _know_ will be well supported.
>
> While I'm using a dual port PCI-X NIC and not a quad, I'm really happy
with
> the compatibility (ethool can blink the LEDs) and have no complaints about
> performance.
>
> It is an Intel 82571EB using the e1000e kernel driver.
> lspci (for one interface of the dual) output below:
>
>
> ~]# lspci -s 08:00 -vv
> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 06)
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 31
> Region 0: Memory at d5ee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> Region 1: Memory at d5ec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> Region 2: I/O ports at dce0 [size=32]
> Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
> Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
> Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> Address: 00000000fee2000c  Data: 41d9
> Capabilities: [e0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
> DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <64us
> ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset-
> DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal+ Unsupported-
> RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
> MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
> DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr+ FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr+ TransPend-
> LnkCap: Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <4us, L1
> <64us
> ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
> LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
> ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
> LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x4, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt-
> ABWMgmt-
> Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
> UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP-
> ECRC- UnsupReq+ ACSViol-
> UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO+ CmpltAbrt+ UnxCmplt+ RxOF- MalfTLP-
> ECRC- UnsupReq+ ACSViol-
> UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP+ FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+
> ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
> CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
> CEMsk: RxErr+ BadTLP+ BadDLLP+ Rollover+ Timeout+ NonFatalErr-
> AERCap: First Error Pointer: 14, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-
> Capabilities: [140 v1] Device Serial Number 00-15-17-ff-ff-3d-58-10
> Kernel driver in use: e1000e
> Kernel modules: e1000e
>
>
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> Mike
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This is for my personal home "server".  I have dual gigabit intel nic PCIE
and it is nice knowing that, chances are no matter what distro I use that
the card will work. I see these "Pulled from working system" Sun quad
gigabit NICs  pcix on ebay for like 10 to 20 shipped thought I might ask
around.




On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 02/01/15 06:01, John R Pierce wrote:
> > On 1/1/2015 9:41 PM, mechy2k2000 wrote:
> >> Hello I am thinking of buying this card to and wanted  to know if this
> >> NIC
> >> is supported. The card is a Sun Microsystems PCI-X Quad-Port Gigabit
> >> Ethernet Adapter QGEXPCI 501-6738-10. Can't find any info on how well
> the
> >> card plays with centos and also proxmox ve (if any of you use that
> >> distro )
> >
> > I've not tried that card on anything other than Sun UltraSparc running
> > Solaris 9 and 10, but rumor has it Linux has a 'cassini' driver that
> > supports the Sun GigaSwift NIC on those.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> The cassini.ko driver is present in el5 and el6, but Red Hat dropped
> support from RHEL7. If you want to use it on el7 then elrepo.org has
> packaged the driver for el7, backported from kernel-3.10.63:
>
> kmod-cassini-1.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>
> At present it's in the testing repo so do let us know if you try it and
> it works for you.
>
> Regards,
>
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Thanks