CentOS - Jan 2015 - Sun Microsystems Quad gigabit ethernet nic compatibility

Hello I am thinking of buying this card to and wanted  to know if this NIC
is supported. The card is a Sun Microsystems PCI-X Quad-Port Gigabit
Ethernet Adapter QGEXPCI 501-6738-10. Can't find any info on how well the
card plays with centos and also proxmox ve (if any of you use that distro )

If things don't seem to work I may bite the bullet and buy an Intel card

thanks
Rafeal Stewart

On 1/1/2015 9:41 PM, mechy2k2000 wrote:
> Hello I am thinking of buying this card to and wanted  to know if this NIC
> is supported. The card is a Sun Microsystems PCI-X Quad-Port Gigabit
> Ethernet Adapter QGEXPCI 501-6738-10. Can't find any info on how well
the
> card plays with centos and also proxmox ve (if any of you use that distro )
I've not tried that card on anything other than Sun UltraSparc running 
Solaris 9 and 10, but rumor has it Linux has a 'cassini' driver that 
supports the Sun GigaSwift NIC on those.





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On Thu, 2015-01-01 at 22:01 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 1/1/2015 9:41 PM, mechy2k2000 wrote:
> > Hello I am thinking of buying this card to and wanted  to know if this
NIC
> > is supported. The card is a Sun Microsystems PCI-X Quad-Port Gigabit
> > Ethernet Adapter QGEXPCI 501-6738-10. Can't find any info on how
well the
> > card plays with centos and also proxmox ve (if any of you use that
distro )
> 
> I've not tried that card on anything other than Sun UltraSparc running 
> Solaris 9 and 10, but rumor has it Linux has a 'cassini' driver
that
> supports the Sun GigaSwift NIC on those.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
I see. My gut is starting to tell me its not worth the time to replace
it, if this Sun NIC doesnt play nice with Linux. I also intend to use
the card with Proxmox VE which is debian based.  

~
Rafeal Stewart

On 02/01/15 06:01, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 1/1/2015 9:41 PM, mechy2k2000 wrote:
>> Hello I am thinking of buying this card to and wanted  to know if this
>> NIC
>> is supported. The card is a Sun Microsystems PCI-X Quad-Port Gigabit
>> Ethernet Adapter QGEXPCI 501-6738-10. Can't find any info on how
well the
>> card plays with centos and also proxmox ve (if any of you use that
>> distro )
> 
> I've not tried that card on anything other than Sun UltraSparc running
> Solaris 9 and 10, but rumor has it Linux has a 'cassini' driver
that
> supports the Sun GigaSwift NIC on those.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
The cassini.ko driver is present in el5 and el6, but Red Hat dropped
support from RHEL7. If you want to use it on el7 then elrepo.org has
packaged the driver for el7, backported from kernel-3.10.63:

kmod-cassini-1.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

At present it's in the testing repo so do let us know if you try it and
it works for you.

Regards,