[WBEL-users] Fyi on dell precision 670

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I have a couple of boxes running RHEL WS, and they auto detect and
install the PCI Intel 1000mb cards, without issue.  I'm assuming the
WBEL would do that same.



On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:01, King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) wrote:
> Just something I had to deal with in case someone searching the list needs
> the info.
> 
> I had a Dell 670 sent to me as the techs couldn't get it to take a load.
> Looking at it, the problem was that RH Update3 and Update 5 did not contain
> the necessary SCSI drivers, therefore the disks are never found. I figure
> the same will occur with WBEL as well.
> 
> You will need to make a driver disk from Dells support downloads for the 670
> ( aic79xx-2.0.8-3.tar.gz )
> 
> I also found that their dual-head NIC drivers listed for download are
> incorrect. They list only the 64 bit versions. It turns out you can get the
> one for the video card shipped with that box by getting this driver:
> nvidia-6105-1-i386.tar.gz
> 
> And lastly, the NIC wont work since Intel has not made the driver available
> for the gig e1000 adapter (the default one will not work): "Intel is not
> supplying patches against the kernel source to allow for static linking of 
> the driver."
> 
> So you will need to download that one as well
> 
> http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=39&strT
> ypes=DRV&ProductID=1098&OSFullName=Linux*&submit=Go%21
> 
> 
> Greg King
> 
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