Re: Gigabit PCI network card for Qube2

Please come back and let us know how you get on with the Pro/1000 GT



On 27 December 2010 04:40, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 19/12/2010, at 4:12 PM, ..I'd rather be coding ASM! wrote:
>
> I have a TP-Link gigE in my 2700 for a time with a recompiled kernel. Sadly
> though it just didn`t have the horse power to keep it fed.
>
> I was impressed that it could move about 19mb/s off usb2 disk though.
>
> Al.
>
>
> Hi there,
> Which TP-link board do you have ?  I tried a TP-Link TG-3269 (rev 3.2) and
> it does not work at all in the Qube2 (or the Qube3, but does work in a PC)
> It seems the PCI bus in the Qube2/3 does not even power the board up :-(  ..
> I'm wondering if the board is actually a 3.3volt board even though it has
> both notches for 3.3 and 5volts.
> I assume the PCI bus in the Qube2 is 5v only ?
> The serial output of the Qube2 is this :
>
> Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
> Built Wed Mar  3 21:26:25 PST 1999
>
>  1.LCD Test................................PASS
>  2.Controller Test.........................PASS
>  5.Bank 0:.................................64M
>  6.Bank 1:.................................64M
>  7.Bank 2:.................................64M
>  8.Bank 3:.................................64M
>  9.Serial Test.............................PASS
> 10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
> 12.IDE Test................................PASS
> 13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
> 16.RTC Test................................PASS
> BOOTLOADER: trying to boot from partition /dev/hda1
> Decompressing  done
> Decompressing  done.
>
> I'll try out an Intel Pro/1000 GT next and see if that goes, but I'm
> interested to see what else is know to work
>