SMP on 8 CPU Compaq 8500

John Ekins john.ekins.REMOVE at brightview.com
Thu Dec 11 10:16:34 PST 2003


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:05:13 -0600
"Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle at hp.com> wrote:

-> Hi John,
-> 
-> The NC3131 has the Intel Fast Ethernet chipset, so the fxp driver should
-> work with it.
-> 
-> Did you try the fxp driver?

I did try it, but it didn't work. In fact the NIC is not detected at all. I
did look on Google at the time, and I noted that at least one person
mentioned it should work with the fxp driver, and someone else mentioned the
tlan driver.

I should mention here that I ``believe'' the card is a NC3131. We have two of
these machines, and my Windows-running colleague tells me that is what it is.
The card itself has dual ports, so possibly this doesn't help. As I mentioned
it's not really a problem per se, but it would have been the icing on the
cake as far as installs go.

-> Regards,
-> John

Cheers,
John.


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