Best Gigabit adapter for RH7.2 or 7.3

[David Vos]

SysKonnect sk9821 copper gigabit cards with the Tyan Trinity K2
motherboard.  We only get them to work together if we place a cheap SMC
10/100 card in PCI slot 2.  It didn't appear to be a SysKonnect issue, and
Tyan is ignoring any existance of a problem, so we weren't too happy with
Tyan after that.

Sorry about the blanket statement.

David

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Les Niles wrote:

> Huh?  Which SysKonnect card exactly, and which Tyan motherboard?  
> We run up to 4 SysKonnect 9843 fiber cards on Tyan 1867 and 
> 2567 motherboards (ServerWorks HE and HE-SL chipsets), without 
> problems.  Admittedly those are somewhat dated motherboards now, 
> and I wasn't paying attention to earlier mail in this thread, but 
> this blanket statement about incompatibility caught my attention. 
> 
>   -les
> 
> David Vos [mailto:dvos12 at calvin.edu] wrote:
> > Also beware that you cannot have more than one SysKonnect 
> > card on a Tyan
> > motherboard.  (Though that is probably the motherboard's fault).  Last
> > summer, I ran our school's hypercube beowulf cluster using 
> > the SysKonnect
> > cards with generally good results.  (It isn't made with Dell 
> > PowerEdge's,
> > though).
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Hubbard, David wrote:
> > 
> > > Intel Pro/1000's work great in copper and fiber versions.
> > > I have also used SysKonnect cards and while their support
> > > is great, and drivers are featureful, they do not have
> > > as many features as the intel cards, they generate much
> > > more interrupts, and there is a bug in their drives up
> > > until a pre-release 2.4.19 kernel that causes the kernel
> > > error counter to increase as traffic is passed.
> > > 
> > > David
>