New Cluster...problems recognizing ethernet adapter

Tue Apr 16 09:11:28 EDT 2002

I have a system with a SisXXX network card (nice $6 item :-).  It's worked
fine for months, although I did get frequent errors relating to SMP interrupt
funk (not quite clear as to why).  I eventually swapped it out for a 3com.

But, I do remember that in order to get it to work on a RH62 system, I had
to update the kernel to the very latest and greatest RH had pushed out.  The
driver was NOT part of the out-of-the-box RH62 kernel.  Try updating your
kernel...

Depending on how big your headache is going to be, perhaps you better off
buying other network cards.  Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, but your network
is the life blood of your cluster.  You sure you want to use the bottom
of the barrel. Check the beowolf mail-lists and see what's worked well for
other folks.

"kgleason at ma.ultranet.com" wrote:
> I just bought a new cluster for the college lab and am in the process of gett
> ing it up and rolling. The motherboard is a 1Ghz K7S5A with an onboard ethern
> et LAN. The card uses a Sis900 PCI Fast ethernet adapter and works well under
>  Windows98 but is not being recognized under Red Hat Linux 6.2 (necessary ver
> sion because I'm using Scyld's beowulf cluster CDROM). I looked through the d
> ocumentation with the motherboard and it said that it worked with non-K7S5A b
> oards using RTL8139.o. I checked the windows side and saw it uses the Sis900 
> software
> I did find a copy of RTL8139 in /lib/modules/2.2.17-33.beobeoboot/net and als
> o found a copy of sis900.o in /lib/modules/22.17-33.beo/net.
> 
> How do I get one of these to be recognized by my network?
> 
> Kevin
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