Greetings,

We are going to be ordering a new server and I'm looking at nic's. Can anyone tell me if the Intel Pro 1000XT Copper Gigabit card is supported under either 7.4 or 8.0? Since I don't know what you mean by 7.4, I won't assume that you're talking about SuSE 8.0. The e1000 drivers have worked fine on the newer Intel CPU boxes we've tried, but we have one old P4 box where the same driver, same NIC, same linux distros don't bring the NIC to life, although it works fine under Win2K. An identical P4 box started working with the e1000 after a series of CPU and BIOS upgrades, and has been totally reliable for a year,

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 16:10, Rob Wright wrote: through linux and Windows upgrades. We've seen AMD boxes where the 1000XT drivers didn't work either under Windows or linux, and some where the OS installer refused to recognize the card, but the driver could be force installed successfully from a floppy. I haven't seen a case where the NIC drivers cared whether they were running under SuSE or redhat. I would think that you would have some kind of support with a server purchase and could change out on the off chance your BIOS interferes with support of the card. -- Tim Prince