gigabit ethernet cards and drivers

[Peter Wadsack]

If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before I
replace a 10Mb card ...

Please email a copy of your response directly to

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TIA


Peter

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[Bob Eager]

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before I
replace a 10Mb card ...

I'm using a Broadcom NetExtreme, although only running at 100Mb/s as
yet. Mine is onboard in an IBM server, but there is an equivalent
card...

[Allan]

Post by Bob Eager

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before I
replace a 10Mb card ...

I'm using a Broadcom NetExtreme, although only running at 100Mb/s as
yet. Mine is onboard in an IBM server, but there is an equivalent
card...

Broadcom NetExtreme driver doesn't support Apic.

[Colin Campbell]

I added an Intel PRO/1000 MT card to my Dell computer, and use that
under eCS 1.24. It is a 10 / 100 / 1000 type of card, and is rather
expensive, but OS/2 is still supported. My ISP only gives me 100Mb
speed, though.

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before I
replace a 10Mb card ...
Please email a copy of your response directly to
TIA
Peter
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[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:16:15 -0700, Colin Campbell

Post by Colin Campbell

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before I
replace a 10Mb card ...
Please email a copy of your response directly to
TIA
Peter
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I added an Intel PRO/1000 MT card to my Dell computer, and use that
under eCS 1.24. It is a 10 / 100 / 1000 type of card, and is rather
expensive, but OS/2 is still supported. My ISP only gives me 100Mb
speed, though.

I have an Intel PRO/1000 MT card too. It works OK with the Intel
drivers, but has a problem when the cable is disconnected (or the PC
at the other end is turned off) - after a few minutes (a timeout of
some sort), it crashes the system. So when I turn off my other box
(WinXP), I have to pull the cable at that end and plug it into my
10/100 Mbit switch. Then the Intel drivers are happy. I never had
any luck with the IBM drivers.

I tried a generic RTL chipset card and the GenMAC drivers, but that
did not work well at all. That was quite some time ago though, and
the GenMAC drivers have been worked on a lot since then so it might be
worth trying. RTL cards are *cheap*.

http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php
http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=gigabit

Of course, with any gigabit ethernet card on the PCI bus, you are
never going to get full 1 Gibit/s speed as that is much more than the
PCI bus can handle. For full speed, you need PCI Express or
motherboard builtin chip. But it does run significantly faster than a
100 Mbit/s card. I can not remember exactly how much faster - it is
ages since I tested it - but I think it was about 300 Mbit/s or so.

[Alex Smariga]

If you really want gigabit speed, stay away from Intel. Works fine at
100mb, but gets very flaky over that, and Intel could care less
(ersonal experience after converting my entire net to them). Works,
but causes a lot of dropped servers, and gores from gigabit to 100 bit
without warning, and no recourse except to reboot the offending
server.

Alex

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:14:34 UTC, "Peter Wadsack"

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before I
replace a 10Mb card ...
Please email a copy of your response directly to
TIA
Peter
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[David T. Johnson]

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before I
replace a 10Mb card ...

I'm using the os/2 driver for the Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI
Gigabit Ethernet controller that's
the onboard gigabit LAN controller for some motherboards and it works
very well. The speed is probably no more than about 600Mbits/sec but
that's still pretty good for OS/2. The original syskonnect driver at

http://www.syskonnect.de/

was patched by veit kannegieser to work with the onboard yukon chipset
and I am using the patched driver so I haven't tried the original
syskonnect driver but I expect that it's pretty good.

The Intel hardware (Pro/10, Pro/100, or Pro/1000) is probably your best
overall bet for OS/2. You can buy a used Pro/100 controller for a few
dollars and the OS/2 driver works very well. I haven't tried the
Pro/1000 driver but I would at least test it before passing on it. You
have to download the newest version of the Pro/1000 driver from IBM as
Intel has an older version on their website.

[Bob Plyler]

Post by David T. Johnson

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before
I replace a 10Mb card ...

I'm using the os/2 driver for the Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI
Gigabit Ethernet controller that's
the onboard gigabit LAN controller for some motherboards and it works
very well. The speed is probably no more than about 600Mbits/sec but
that's still pretty good for OS/2. The original syskonnect driver at
http://www.syskonnect.de/
was patched by veit kannegieser to work with the onboard yukon chipset
and I am using the patched driver so I haven't tried the original
syskonnect driver but I expect that it's pretty good.
The Intel hardware (Pro/10, Pro/100, or Pro/1000) is probably your best
overall bet for OS/2. You can buy a used Pro/100 controller for a few
dollars and the OS/2 driver works very well. I haven't tried the
Pro/1000 driver but I would at least test it before passing on it. You
have to download the newest version of the Pro/1000 driver from IBM as
Intel has an older version on their website.

We use the Intel gigabit card in our product. While we are running,
we are sending about 560000-2000000 bytes/second when doing image capture.
And we do this continually, until the paper runs out or the sorter jams.

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/cpcs/hardware/

Bob Plyler

IBM 3890/XP Development (not an official ibm spokesperson)

[Alex Smariga]

Bob,

What card/chipset and what version of Intel drivers are you using?

Alex

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:18:55 UTC, Bob Plyler

Post by Bob Plyler

Post by David T. Johnson

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before
I replace a 10Mb card ...

I'm using the os/2 driver for the Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI
Gigabit Ethernet controller that's
the onboard gigabit LAN controller for some motherboards and it works
very well. The speed is probably no more than about 600Mbits/sec but
that's still pretty good for OS/2. The original syskonnect driver at
http://www.syskonnect.de/
was patched by veit kannegieser to work with the onboard yukon chipset
and I am using the patched driver so I haven't tried the original
syskonnect driver but I expect that it's pretty good.
The Intel hardware (Pro/10, Pro/100, or Pro/1000) is probably your best
overall bet for OS/2. You can buy a used Pro/100 controller for a few
dollars and the OS/2 driver works very well. I haven't tried the
Pro/1000 driver but I would at least test it before passing on it. You
have to download the newest version of the Pro/1000 driver from IBM as
Intel has an older version on their website.

We use the Intel gigabit card in our product. While we are running,
we are sending about 560000-2000000 bytes/second when doing image capture.
And we do this continually, until the paper runs out or the sorter jams.
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/cpcs/hardware/
Bob Plyler
IBM 3890/XP Development (not an official ibm spokesperson)

[Bob Plyler]

Post by Alex Smariga
Bob,
What card/chipset and what version of Intel drivers are you using?
Alex

I'll have to check Monday. I'm about ready to leave.

Bob

[Bob Plyler]

Post by Alex Smariga
Bob,
What card/chipset and what version of Intel drivers are you using?
Alex

We are using the IBM drivers for the Intel chipset.

It's the E1000.OS2 driver.

I'm not sure of the card, but it's either the

PRO/1000 MT Server Adapter by Intel
or
PRO/1000 XT Server Adapter by Intel


Bob Plyler

[David T. Johnson]

Post by David T. Johnson
I'm using the os/2 driver for the Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI
Gigabit Ethernet controller that's
the onboard gigabit LAN controller for some motherboards and it works
very well. The speed is probably no more than about 600Mbits/sec but
that's still pretty good for OS/2. The original syskonnect driver at
http://www.syskonnect.de/
was patched by veit kannegieser to work with the onboard yukon chipset
and I am using the patched driver so I haven't tried the original
syskonnect driver but I expect that it's pretty good.

I was surprised to get several emails asking for the patched driver. It
can be downloaded from Hobbes at:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/

Search for the file 'yukon.zip'

[Trevor Hemsley]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:14:34 UTC in comp.os.os2.networking.misc, "Peter Wadsack"

Post by Peter Wadsack
If anyone has a positive experience with a particular combination of a
gigabit ethernet card and driver for warp452, I'd like to know, before I
replace a 10Mb card ...

I'm happy to report that the D-Link DGE-530T cards that I received today work
with the yukon.zip driver from hobbes though the patch included with the file
needs a slight alteration to cater for the different PCI vendor/deviceid. I have
two of these cards and have installed one of them so far but it seems to work
OK.

New patch file appied using 'patch sk98nd.pat /A':

FILE sk98nd.os2
VER 000002AA 48
VER 000002AB 11
VER 000002AC 20
VER 000002AD 43
CHA 000002BA 86
CHA 000002BB 11
CHA 000002BC 01
CHA 000002BD 4B
CHA 000002BE FF
CHA 000002BF FF
CHA 000002C0 FF
CHA 000002C1 FF

(this adds PCI Vendorid 1186, deviceid 4B01 into the table and then the DGE-530T
is recognised by the driver as a Marvell chip).

My cards are both Marvell 88E8001 chips and the cards are marked DGE-530T Rev
B1. They were the cheapest PCI cards I could find that are based around the
Marvell 88E8001 chipset, selling for around £16 each in the UK vs £25 for Intel
ones.

[Veit Kannegieser]

Post by Trevor Hemsley
I'm happy to report that the D-Link DGE-530T cards that I received today work
with the yukon.zip driver from hobbes

If you get any problems, also try using GenMac,
i had good results using genmac200.zip + genmac200_marvel.zip..

[rafe]

Post by Veit Kannegieser

Post by Trevor Hemsley
I'm happy to report that the D-Link DGE-530T cards that I received today work
with the yukon.zip driver from hobbes

If you get any problems, also try using GenMac,
i had good results using genmac200.zip + genmac200_marvel.zip..
--
Veit Kannegieser

I can get a D-Link DFE-530TX at JR here for about 14 bucks.

and I see a bunch of packages at http://genmac.netlabs.org/en/site/downloads.xml

but I don't see an index telling me which package(s) to use...

[Trevor Hemsley]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:10:52 UTC in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, rafe

Post by rafe
I can get a D-Link DFE-530TX at JR here for about 14 bucks.

The DFE is 100mbit not Gigabit. Is that what you wanted?

[r***@gmail.com]

On May 16, 1:02 pm, "Trevor Hemsley"

Post by Trevor Hemsley
On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:10:52 UTC in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, rafe

Post by rafe
I can get a D-Link DFE-530TX at JR here for about 14 bucks.

The DFE is 100mbit not Gigabit. Is that what you wanted?
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

I guess, since the specs for this Trendnet router indicates only
"10/100Mbs Auto-MDIX Fast Ethernet."

unless I might get faster throughput nevertheless?

serves me right for tailing onto an old thread. I thought Gigabit was
a brand name!