Hi Jack! we have several of this vintage: 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller in both fiber and copper that work with the e1000 driver without any problem. -- michael On Mon, 10 May 2004, Jack Malone wrote:

I'm wondering if anyone out there is using the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapters ( INTEL PWLA8391MT) nic with suse yet. I want to go to 1 gig for a backbone connection here in house between two different parts in the building.

if not using this one can you recommend another model that will work.

thanks.

jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com

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On Tuesday 11 May 2004 04:14, Jack Malone wrote:

I'm wondering if anyone out there is using the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapters ( INTEL PWLA8391MT) nic with suse yet. I want to go to 1 gig for a backbone connection here in house between two different parts in the building.

I don't know that particular model, but all 100 Meg intel cards use e100 and all intel gigabit cards use e1000. I've used both, dead stable, drivers already in all distros easy install (recognised and configured automatically). The only gotcha is that if you get the plain PCI workstation class card it is limited (by the PCI bus) to <250 Meg. For full gigabit performance you need a server class card, PCI-X (wide bus) or similar. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166