About NIC

[satimis]

Hi all,

I have an onboard 1G NIC but need 2 NICs for testing Cloud.

I found following economic NIC
TP-Link TG-3468 PCI-Express Gigabit Network Card
http://www.microbarn.com/details.aspx?rid=102333

Is there any problem making it work on Linux (Fedora 17/Ubuntu 12.04/Debian 6 etc)?

TIA

B.R.
satimis

[george_toolan]

Most nics should be working out of the box especially if it says "Linux" under System Requirements ;-)

Some people prefer Intel chips, but they're usually a bit more expensive.

[satimis]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Most nics should be working out of the box especially if it says "Linux" under System Requirements ;-)

It has driver problem on Ubuntu

Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 & Realtek network card RTL8111/RTL8168B driver installation
http://mschoofs.blogspot.hk/2012/07/...work-card.html

Quick Resolution – slow network using RTL8111/RTL8168B in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
http://kbflow.wordpress.com/2012/02/...ntu-10-04-lts/

I have no idea whether it has the same problem on Fedora 17

Some people prefer Intel chips, but they're usually a bit more expensive.

NIC with Intel chip is reliable but more expensive. Unfortunately I haven't found an economic NIC with intel chip. I use it for testing only NOT for production.

B.R.
satimis

[george_toolan]

This one is working with Fedora 16 out of the box

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7681
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169

And I don't see any errors ;-)

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:935642096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:499670946 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1389386688918 (1.2 TiB)  TX bytes:36955826117 (34.4 GiB)

[satimis]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

This one is working with Fedora 16 out of the box

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7681
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169

And I don't see any errors ;-)

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:935642096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:499670946 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1389386688918 (1.2 TiB)  TX bytes:36955826117 (34.4 GiB)

Thanks

B.R.
satimis

[satimis]

Hi george_toolan,

I have TP-Link Gigabit ethernet card installed on the PC as 2nd NIC

eth0 onboard LAN nVidia chip
eth1 TP-Link NIC RTL chip

the driver is r8168-8.032.00.tar.bz2 download on;
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...etDown=false#2

I have further questions;

1)
On booting the PC it prompts on screen;
RPL-ROM-ADR: 90F6 5203 5786
RPL-ROM-IRQ: 11
RPL-ROM-PIO: AC00

RPL-ROM-FFC: 1/50 (running from 1 to 50)

on each boot. Whether it is necessary? If NO how to skip it?


2)
The cable used for eth0 is CAT5e connected to the router. Can I use CAT5 cable to connect eth1 to the same router? If YES I have spare CAT5 in store room. If NO I have to purchase a new CAT5e cable.


3)
I need to set static IP address as follow:-

(#eth0)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.10
netmask 255.255.255.0 ?
network 192.168.0.1


(#eth1)
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 10.0.0.1
netmask ?
network ?

Please help. TIA

B.R.
satimis

[george_toolan]

Try to find out if the card has any sort of configuration utility where you could disable booting from this nic.

If you already have a cable just connect it to the nic and see what happens. There is no need to buy cat6 cables.

But why would you want to connect both nics to the same router?

I don't quite understand what you're trying to do.

You can configure your nic with NetworkManager similar to the first one, but you also have to configure your router.

Your internet router probably only handles one network.

[satimis]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Try to find out if the card has any sort of configuration utility where you could disable booting from this nic.

I have this problem sorted out. Shift+F10 evokes the config menu. It won't boot on network now.

If you already have a cable just connect it to the nic and see what happens. There is no need to buy cat6 cables.

But why would you want to connect both nics to the same router?

I don't quite understand what you're trying to do.

You can configure your nic with NetworkManager similar to the first one, but you also have to configure your router.

Your internet router probably only handles one network.

- cat5 cable also works. But I can resolve after reboot it won't connect Internet again. I'm still trying to sort out this problem. Can you help? Which file on Fedora is equivalent to /etc/apt/source.list (Debian/Ubuntu)

- this is only a Test. I need 2nd NIC for testing Cloud.

Thanks

B.R.
satimis

[george_toolan]

That would be the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, but you can't just add any Ubuntu servers here ;-)

[satimis]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

That would be the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, but you can't just add any Ubuntu servers here ;-)

Thanks

$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

adobe-linux-x86_64.repo      rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
fedora.repo                  rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
fedora-updates.repo          rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
fedora-updates-testing.repo  rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo  rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
rpmfusion-free.repo          rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo

If adding a new repository which file shall I edit?

satimis

[george_toolan]

You don't edit any of these files. You create a new one or just download the rpm file form the repository like you did with rpmfusion.