On 6/3/2013 10:36 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Please CC or direct reply, as I'm not subscribed. And I apologize for > the OT nature of this post. I've been through all the Intel docs I can > find, to no avail, and got nowhere with Intel support people, who had no > idea what I was taking about. > > I want to order a PWLA8391GT Pro/1000 GT PCI card for a ~13 year old > 440BX based mobo, an Abit BP6. The PCI slots are rev 2.1, 5V only. I > find no info saying whether it will or won't work in PCI 2.1 slots, only > that PCI 2.3, 2.2 are supported. I followed the card edge pin traces in > a photo of this card and all eight 5V pins are connected, so it should > work in a 5V slot. I was just burned by a "universal" RTL8169 card that > turned out to be 3.3V only and wouldn't power up. I want my ducks in a > row before ordering the next GbE NIC, which should be the -last- GbE NIC > in this saga. > > FWIW, I currently have a Pro/100 PCI running in this old board, 8+ years > of flawless operation. The box is a 24x7 SOHO/MX server. Thus it > doesn't matter if any of the advanced features don't work, such as hot > swap, WOL, power management, VLANs, etc. Don't need those. All I need > is GbE and basic Linux TCP/IP. If this card won't work in PCI 2.1 5V, > can someone recommend an Intel PCI GbE NIC that will? One that is > readily available, at the same price point? > > Again, sorry to bother this list with such a question. I simply haven't > been able to find the information anywhere else, and thought someone > here may know. > > Thanks.
Something I forgot. If/when I find a card I know will work at the hardware level, I plan to initially use it with 3.2.6. I plan to move to the 3.4 or 3.6 series shortly afterward. Are there any particular revs known to not work so well with this or a similar Intel GbE NIC? Thanks. -- Stan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
