Since the e1000 keeps scribbling over my memory (it appears), I tried
to tie-break with two NetGear GA 620 nics.
Well, it only finds one!!
In the meantime, I hear that tigonIII is a reasonably good performer.
Anyone suggest a NIC based on this chipset that is well supported?
From dmesg:
acenic.c: v0.92 08/05/2002 Jes Sorensen, [email protected]
http://home.cern.ch/~jes/gige/acenic.html
eth2: NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf4000000, irq 10
Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:a0:cc:73:37:3a
PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 64 clks
Disabling PCI memory write and invalidate
eth2: Firmware NOT running!
eth2: NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf4004000, irq 9
Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:a0:cc:73:35:d6
PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 64 clks
Disabling PCI memory write and invalidate
eth2: Firmware up and running
from lspci -v:
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Netgear GA620 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 10
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Netgear GA620 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 10
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at f4004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ben
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President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear
I've got 4 3com 3c985 acenic based chips running in a box without any
probs.
00:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15
Memory at febfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
--
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 4
Memory at efffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
01:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 11
Memory at efff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
--
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 4
Memory at edffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I've also got 3 tigon3 nics running in another box without any probs.
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15
Memory at efff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
--
01:03.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 5
Memory at effe0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
--
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15
Memory at edff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Ben Greear wrote:
> Since the e1000 keeps scribbling over my memory (it appears), I tried
> to tie-break with two NetGear GA 620 nics.
>
> Well, it only finds one!!
>
> In the meantime, I hear that tigonIII is a reasonably good performer.
> Anyone suggest a NIC based on this chipset that is well supported?
>
> From dmesg:
>
> acenic.c: v0.92 08/05/2002 Jes Sorensen, [email protected]
> http://home.cern.ch/~jes/gige/acenic.html
> eth2: NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf4000000, irq 10
> Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:a0:cc:73:37:3a
> PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 64 clks
> Disabling PCI memory write and invalidate
> eth2: Firmware NOT running!
> eth2: NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf4004000, irq 9
> Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:a0:cc:73:35:d6
> PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 64 clks
> Disabling PCI memory write and invalidate
> eth2: Firmware up and running
>
> from lspci -v:
>
>
> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Netgear GA620 (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 0001
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 10
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
> Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Netgear GA620 (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 0001
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 10
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
> Region 0: Memory at f4004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Greear <[email protected]> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com>
> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
> ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear
>
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