Intel NIC on AlphaServer ES47

[Rustam Aliyev_1]

Hello,

We have ES47 with preinstalled 3 DEGXA Broadcom NICs identified by system as bcm0, bcm1 and bcm2. One is copper gigabit, rest two are fibre w/ LC connector.

We decided to remove two fibre NICs and relpace them with one Intel PRO/1000 MF Server Adapter which is fibre w/ SC connector.

I took out two Broadcom fibre NICs and put an Intel card in place of one of them.

After system boots I saw only one network interface - copper Broadcom which I did not touched as bcm1.

Also green lights came on two LEDs situated next to the card.

1. Does Tru64 5.1B support Intel Pro/1000 adapters?
2. If yes what steps should I take to install it?
3. What do the LEDs identify?

Also, it seems like system still think that bcm adapters present because my single adapter is bcm1 not bcm0 and:

# hwmgr -show name

HWID: NAME HOSTNAME PERSIST TYPE PERSIST AT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
121: aha_chim2 intranet2 BUS pci10 slot 1
40: aha_chim0 intranet2 BUS pci2 slot 1
123: ata1 intranet2 BUS pci10 slot 2
42: ata0 intranet2 BUS pci2 slot 2
109: bcm2 intranet2 CONTROLLER pci9 slot 2
108: bcm1 intranet2 CONTROLLER pci9 slot 1
28: bcm0 intranet2 CONTROLLER pci1 slot 3
24: ciss0 intranet2 BUS pci1 slot 1
26: itpsa0 intranet2 BUS pci1 slot 2
99: mvioa2 intranet2 BUS mvsoc2 slot 2
13: mvioa0 intranet2 BUS mvsoc0 slot 0
130: pci11 intranet2 BUS mvioa2 slot 3
111: pci10 intranet2 BUS mvioa2 slot 2
103: pci9 intranet2 BUS mvioa2 slot 1
101: pci8 intranet2 BUS mvioa2 slot 0
49: pci3 intranet2 BUS mvioa0 slot 3
30: pci2 intranet2 BUS mvioa0 slot 2
17: pci1 intranet2 BUS mvioa0 slot 1
15: pci0 intranet2 BUS mvioa0 slot 0
......


Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Cortes Albertino]

Hello,

To answer to the first question:

1. Does Tru64 5.1B support Intel Pro/1000 adapters?

NO, i don't think that this NIC adapter is supported on Tru64 unix.

Intel Pro/1000 supported Operating Systems:

Windows NT 4.0 and 2000

NetWare 4.11 through 6 (Server adapters only)
Linux 2.2.x and 2.4 (Server adapters only)
UnixWare 7.x and Open UNIX 8 (Server adapters only)
MS-DOS

Hope it helps,

Albertino Cortes

[Ralf Puchner]

the HP network cards uses Intel chips, that is right. But it is very unprofessional to plug the card into the machine not looking if it is really supported and if the production id matches the correct supported option.

there is a supported option list available for every machine ask your dealer or HP.

If using a card not supported leads to an unsupported configuration!