Steve Cousins <cous...@umit.maine.edu> writes: > I have a couple of 10 GbE cards from HP (NC510F, NetXen/QLogic) and I have > been > trying to get them to work in non-HP Linux systems. After failing to be able > to > comile/install the nx_nic drivers on Fedora 9 and 12 (it checks to see if > kernel >>= 2.6.27 and if so looks for net/8021q/vlan.h but can't find it)
I suspect that header was simply not packaged in the appropriate rpm. You might be able to get away with commenting out that include. > I installed > one of the supported distributions (or close enough): CentOS 5. Driver > installation went fine and I was able to get one of the cards to work. The > other > one seems to be bad. The nx_nic driver loads but no eth2 device shows up. > Also, > the Activity LED is constant but no Link LED lights up. Since I can't get the > eth device loaded I can't update the firmware. Does fedora not build the in kernel driver? They should. Except for occasionally having to flash the firmware up to the latest image I have had good luck with the netxen nics. I don't know anything about the your weird purchase/support situation. Eric _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf