Yes, of course.  The same IP as works perfectly when pure Fedora 
9 is up.  The problem with that is DCA is not enabled an 
interrupts are set to PCI rather than MSI-X.  These are the 
precise reason why we're evaluating the 82575.  Otherwise 
82571EB would be sufficient and a whole lot less trouble.




At 10:42 10/13/2008 -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>I'm hoping that the interfaces are configured? If they're not, 
>they may not detect link and show the "Link detected: no" message.
>
>On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, David Lawless wrote:
>
>> We're trying to evaluate an Intel Pro VT Quad and are having
>> major problems coaxing it to work on an HP DL160 G5 (Seaburg
>> 5400 chipset).  RAM is 16GB and cpus are two E5430s.  BIOS
>> is latest 8/22/08 revision.
>>
>> Have tried many combinations:
>>  RHEL 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5)
>>  Fedora 9 w/ Kernel.org (2.6.24.7)
>>  Fedora 9 w/ Kernel.org (2.6.25.18)
>>  Fedora 9 w/ Kernel.org (2.6.27)
>>  Fedora 9 (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64)
>> With both the native device drivers and the Intel site
>> device drivers.
>>
>> In most cases the 'igb' devices seem to come up, but 'ethtool' 
>shows
>>  -
>>  Speed: 1000Mb/s
>>  Duplex: Full
>>  -
>>  Link detected: no
>>  -
>> and they do not function.
>>
>> It does work under Fedora 9 (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64), but in
>> that case MSI interrupts are completely disabled and it falls
>> back to PCI-APIC interrupts.  MSI-X interrupts are indicated 
>for
>> RHEL 5.2 and the Kernel.org kernel, though as I said it does 
>not
>> actually work.  Couldn't successfully compile 'ioatdma.ko' for
>> 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 kernels.  Under those versions the results 
>are
>> the same when using the native 'ioatdma.ko' and 'dca.ko'.
>>
>> In addition to the Quad-VT card, we have an Intel 10GbE dual 
>CX4
>> card in the other slot.  In every case we're seeing the 
>'ixgbe'
>> driver claim that the bus width is x1 even though the slot is
>> x16.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>
>-- 
>Hisashi T Fujinaka - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 
>= latte
>


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