Folks have had issues with Intel Pro 1000 GT cards in the past (other models esp the MT are fine apparently) but the 3Com 3C2000-T is troublesome as well. I have experience with that one however and can share a workaround with a third party driver. I have not heard of anyone resolving the issues with the Intel Pro 1000 GT, they appear to have problems network booting.
How far did you get into the cluster install before giving up on the cards? Did you try the boot CD? I had some success cloning images with the boot CD with the 3c2000-T. Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/) might be worth a try as well. The workaround for the 3c2000-T involves using another manifacturers driver for the same chipset, so you might poke around a bit for something of that sort as well. On 1/24/06, carlos vasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > The cards we are using are > Intel Pro 1000 GT > connected to a PCI slot, not integrated in the main board. We have > tried the last driver from the INTEL page. > > I am trying to get some 3Com 3C2000-T, but I don't know if they will work. > > Regards, > Carlos > > On 1/24/06, Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What card are you using exactly? I (and others) have had problems > > with the drivers on certain 3com cards in the past. > > > > On 1/24/06, carlos vasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > We have stopped the cluster install (AMD_64, FC3_64 and oscar 4.2.1) > > > because some strange problem with the NICs. > > > > > > What we can observe is that communications through Intel Gigabit cards > > > in the PCI slot is extremely slow, due to timeouts. Messages of this > > > kind, > > > e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang > > > are obtained from the kernel. > > > > > > We have done some trial with other OS, like FC4_64, SL4_64, FC3_32, > > > but without any success. 3Com Fast-Ethernet cards work fine, but are > > > slow for our purposes. > > > Now I am waiting for new 3Com Gigabit cards, or any other solution > > > that our IT dept. provides. > > > > > > I hope to resume the Oscar 4.2.1 work, and get the new cluster operating > > > soon. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Carlos > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > > > files > > > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > > > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmdlnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Oscar-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
