[WBEL-users] Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards

[Dave Theodore]

Thanks for the replies.  I called AMCC/JNI "support" this morning and they
said that they initially planned to offer closed source linux drivers then
make them open-source.  The printed docs included with the card and
marketing stuff I found on the web say that this card is supported on linux.
Somewhere along the line, they decided (or AMCC decided) not to pursue linux
drivers, though and they will not be releasing a closed source driver.  I
tried rolling a custom kernel with everything that even remotely seemed like
it might contain support for the card and it is still not recognized.  Part
of the reason that I chose WBEL as the distro for this project is because of
the theoretical added reliability of a stable disto like RHEL, so I was
trying to get away from rolling my own kernel or using devices that are not
supported by the stock kernel.  I will likely exchange the cards for Qlogic
2340's.

Thanks again,
Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ty R. McMichael" <ty_mcmichael@po.cfec.state.ak.us>
To: "Kirby Bohling" <kbohling@birddog.com>
Cc: "Dave Theodore" <dtheodore@akimbo.com>; <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards


> I would also start with installing the appropriate unsupported kernel.
> Although it did not solve my D-Link DGE-5000SX driver issue, it solved
> others such as NCPFS.  The weird thing is, that prior to their sale to
> AMCC, JNI frequently mentioned Linux driver support.  Here is an
> semi-old link from fibrechannel.org that discusses their unix
> driversuite and specifically the linux portion.  It does contain a
> number to call, but who knows.  The URL's have obviously changed as
> well.  Good luck.
>
> http://www.fibrechannel.org/press/jni000424a.html
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 09:24, Kirby Bohling wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:51:03AM -0700, Dave Theodore wrote:
> > > I am hoping to use JNI FCE-6460 fiber channel cards with WBEL.  The
"stock"
> > > kernel does not have a driver for this card and an lspci is unable to
> > > recognize the card.  Has anyone gotten this card to work with WBEL?
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > Not sure what all you've tried, but I've got a number of cards
> > at home that only work with the kernel-unsupported RPM's installed.
> > That has a lot of obscure modules in it.  I know that's the one I
> > have to install to get the bttv.o modules for my WinTV card.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Kirby
> >
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
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