sun + gigabit nic

sun + gigabit nic

[kernel]

for my sun ultrasparc 10 with linux i wanted to upgrade to a gigabit card
but when looking in the menuconfig i only see : (kernel 2.2.20pre10)

MyriCOM Gigabit Ethernet support

does anyone know which cards are supported ? (with patches?)
it has to be 1000base-T

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[David S. Miller]

   From: kernel@ddx.a2000.nu
   Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:22:40 +0200 (CEST)

   for my sun ultrasparc 10 with linux i wanted to upgrade to a gigabit card
   but when looking in the menuconfig i only see : (kernel 2.2.20pre10)
   
   MyriCOM Gigabit Ethernet support
   
   does anyone know which cards are supported ? (with patches?)
   it has to be 1000base-T
   
No patches needed, 2.2.x (and 2.4.x) supports Syskonnect gigabit cards
out of the box.

Acenic is supported in 2.4.x, although I don't know why not in 2.2.x
as that should be trivial to make work...

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[kernel]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> No patches needed, 2.2.x (and 2.4.x) supports Syskonnect gigabit cards
> out of the box.
>
> Acenic is supported in 2.4.x, although I don't know why not in 2.2.x
> as that should be trivial to make work...

so the Syskonnect SK-9D21 is supported ?

what about 3com and intel 1000base-t cards ? (which are much lower priced
compared to syskonnect)

also where can i found more info about Acenic ? (www.Acenic.com doesn't
work)

P.s. system is a sun ultrasparc 10

Thnx,
	Stephan

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:

>
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > No patches needed, 2.2.x (and 2.4.x) supports Syskonnect gigabit cards
> > out of the box.
> >
> > Acenic is supported in 2.4.x, although I don't know why not in 2.2.x
> > as that should be trivial to make work...
>
> so the Syskonnect SK-9D21 is supported ?
>
> what about 3com and intel 1000base-t cards ? (which are much lower priced
> compared to syskonnect)
>
> also where can i found more info about Acenic ? (www.Acenic.com doesn't
> work)

alteon was aquired by nortel... their subsidiary netgear(part of the bay
networks aquisition) makes one of the cards.



> P.s. system is a sun ultrasparc 10
>
> Thnx,
> 	Stephan
>
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Re: sun + gigabit nic

[kernel]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> alteon was aquired by nortel... their subsidiary netgear(part of the bay
> networks aquisition) makes one of the cards.

so will the netgear gigabit adapter work with the ultrasparc linux kernel
?
(the netgear ga622t ?)

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "kernel" == kernel  <kernel@ddx.a2000.nu> writes:

kernel> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

>> No patches needed, 2.2.x (and 2.4.x) supports Syskonnect gigabit
>> cards out of the box.
>> 
>> Acenic is supported in 2.4.x, although I don't know why not in
>> 2.2.x as that should be trivial to make work...

kernel> so the Syskonnect SK-9D21 is supported ?

kernel> what about 3com and intel 1000base-t cards ? (which are much
kernel> lower priced compared to syskonnect)

3Com 3C985 series is supported by the AceNIC driver. The Intel cards
are only supported by an Intel provided driver which has license and
patent issues afaik.

kernel> also where can i found more info about Acenic ?
kernel> (www.Acenic.com doesn't work)

http://home.cern.ch/~jes/gige/acenic.html

AceNIC basically covers the following cards: Alteon AceNIC, 3Com
3C985(B), NetGear GA620(T) and some cards from Farallon, DEC, HP & SGI
which I do not remember the model numbers of.

Jes

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[Thomas Duffy]

On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 09:44, kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:

> so will the netgear gigabit adapter work with the ultrasparc linux kernel
> ?
> (the netgear ga622t ?)

this is netgear's gige over copper card. it does not use the acenic
chip.  instead it uses the national semiconductor 83820 chip and a
different driver. this driver did not go into the kernel until ~2.4.10
(ns83820.c) and does not work under sparc64 so far -- it seems to
compile, load into the kernel, receive ethernet packets, but packets
never get to layer 3 AFAICT.  if anybody has had better luck, please let
me know.

btw, anybody know where to get acenic gige copper cards anywhere? for
the life of me, I cannot find a place that sells them anymore.

-tduffy 

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[kernel]

On 8 Oct 2001, Thomas Duffy wrote:

> On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 09:44, kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:
>
> > so will the netgear gigabit adapter work with the ultrasparc linux kernel
> > ?
> > (the netgear ga622t ?)
>
> this is netgear's gige over copper card. it does not use the acenic
> chip.  instead it uses the national semiconductor 83820 chip and a
> different driver. this driver did not go into the kernel until ~2.4.10
> (ns83820.c) and does not work under sparc64 so far -- it seems to

so any gigabit copper cards that DO work under sparc64 ?
i looked at the intel source (on support.intel.com)
but it gives me some errors when i try to compile it on sparc

what about the 3Com 3C996-T ? (which has also drivers for linux on the
support page)

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[David S. Miller]

   From: kernel@ddx.a2000.nu
   Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 00:07:29 +0200 (CEST)
   
   so any gigabit copper cards that DO work under sparc64 ?

Syskonnect and copper Acenic's work just fine.  I see copper netgear
Acenics all the time here locally at Fry's for around $300 USD.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[David S. Miller]

   From: Thomas Duffy <Thomas.Duffy.99@alumni.brown.edu>
   Date: 08 Oct 2001 09:44:13 -0700
   
   btw, anybody know where to get acenic gige copper cards anywhere? for
   the life of me, I cannot find a place that sells them anymore.

Fry's here in California has the netgear ones in stock every time I go
there, in fact I'm angry because they don't stock the fibre ones
anymore like they used to.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:

>
> On 8 Oct 2001, Thomas Duffy wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 09:44, kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:
> >
> > > so will the netgear gigabit adapter work with the ultrasparc linux kernel
> > > ?
> > > (the netgear ga622t ?)

the 620t is the netgear gig-card based on the acenic, it' optical, sx or
lx.

> > this is netgear's gige over copper card. it does not use the acenic
> > chip.  instead it uses the national semiconductor 83820 chip and a
> > different driver. this driver did not go into the kernel until ~2.4.10
> > (ns83820.c) and does not work under sparc64 so far -- it seems to
>
> so any gigabit copper cards that DO work under sparc64 ?
> i looked at the intel source (on support.intel.com)
> but it gives me some errors when i try to compile it on sparc
>
> what about the 3Com 3C996-T ? (which has also drivers for linux on the
> support page)
>
>

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Re: sun + gigabit nic

[kernel]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

>    From: kernel@ddx.a2000.nu
>    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 00:07:29 +0200 (CEST)
>
>    so any gigabit copper cards that DO work under sparc64 ?
>
> Syskonnect and copper Acenic's work just fine.  I see copper netgear
> Acenics all the time here locally at Fry's for around $300 USD.

Ok then i quote Thomas Duffy (about the GA622T) :

> this is netgear's gige over copper card. it does not use the acenic
> chip.  instead it uses the national semiconductor 83820 chip and a
> different driver. this driver did not go into the kernel until ~2.4.10
> (ns83820.c) and does not work under sparc64 so far -- it seems to

so about which netgear card are you talking ?

on netgear.com i see 3 copper cards :

GA620T, GA621T and GA622T

but on the online store i only see the GA622T (so it looks like the other
2 are end of life or something?)

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[kernel]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
> the 620t is the netgear gig-card based on the acenic, it' optical, sx or
> lx.
>
hmms think you mean also copper ?
i found the ga620t card on shopper.com, for about $300, while the ga622t
is
about $100, no change it will be supported ? (don't like to pay 3* more
when support is comming)

Re: sun + gigabit nic

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:32:52AM +0200, kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> >
> > the 620t is the netgear gig-card based on the acenic, it' optical, sx or
> > lx.
> >
> hmms think you mean also copper ?
> i found the ga620t card on shopper.com, for about $300, while the ga622t
> is
> about $100, no change it will be supported ? (don't like to pay 3* more
> when support is comming)

The GA622T is driven by ns83820.c, which I'm still trying to get enough 
information to track down why it isn't working on sparc64.  I have a hunch, 
but have yet to find the time to investigate.

		-ben