[WBEL-users] Fyi on dell precision 670

[King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU)]

 Well RHEL WS cds here did not on this system. Manually selecting it and
trying to enable it failed as well. I ended up calling Dell support asking
what the deal with this model was and I was directed to obtain the necessary
driver for that card from Intel. Downloaded that driver, installed and it
worked fine.

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave J. Hala Jr. [mailto:dave@58ghz.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:14 AM
> To: King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU)
> Cc: WBL Liist
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Fyi on dell precision 670
> 
> 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=3
> > 9&strT
> > ypes=DRV&ProductID=1098&OSFullName=Linux*&submit=Go%21
> > 
> > 
> > Greg King
> > 
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