RS6K standard Ethernet card supported?
The RS6K B50 comes standard with the PCI IBM 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Adapter (unless its token-ring, fddi, of course!). During installation, the Selection of Network Devices screen does not directly offer this as an option. Also, the Hardware Database doesn't show any IBM ethernet cards as being supported. I was going to choose NE2000 (PCI), but in the SuSe knowledgebase, there are some articles saying this may not be a good idea (kfr_16) or that the system may not recognize the card (rb_nwkconfig). Has anyone found problems with the on-board Ethernet adapter on the B50 under the NE2000 PCI driver? Did you use another driver? Thanks for your help.
I'm not positive about the B50, but my 150 (and the 2 models have similar specs) has an AMD PCNet32 PCI card integrated. I'd hope IBM wouldn't be stupid enough to embed a NE2K, especially a PCI version. Ugh. Let it die people... :) On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:55:50PM -0500, David Callaghan wrote:
The RS6K B50 comes standard with the PCI IBM 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Adapter (unless its token-ring, fddi, of course!).
During installation, the Selection of Network Devices screen does not directly offer this as an option. Also, the Hardware Database doesn't show any IBM ethernet cards as being supported.
I was going to choose NE2000 (PCI), but in the SuSe knowledgebase, there are some articles saying this may not be a good idea (kfr_16) or that the system may not recognize the card (rb_nwkconfig).
Has anyone found problems with the on-board Ethernet adapter on the B50 under the NE2000 PCI driver? Did you use another driver?
Thanks for your help.
-- Joe Manojlovich manojlov@cse.psu.edu "And a thermostat on a home furnace... is that supposed to go to 5000 degrees, do you think?"
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