Customized drivers for optical gigabit network cards used for electronics development in TAMU CMS group
So far, three kinds of network cards were used:
- D-Link DGE-550SX - Revision 0c
- based on DL2000 chip, PCI Vendor ID 0x1186, Device ID 0x4000 (use lspci -nn)
- older card, originally used for VME control for CSC detectors
- almost impossible to find for sale
- runs with dl2k linux driver
- in SL4/dl2k/ and SL5/dl2k/ directories corresponding to kernels used in Scientific Linux 4 and 5
- D-Link DGE-550SX - Revision b1
- Based on Marvel 88E8022 chip? Vendor ID 0x1186, Device ID 0x4001
- a newer revision, but now is also hard to find
- runs with sk98lin (in older kernels) or sky2 (newer kernels) linux drivers
- in SL4/sk98lin/ and SL5/sky2/ directories
- Intel I350-F2 (rev 01)
- Intel ?? chip Vendor ID 0x8086, DeviceID 0x1522
- The newest card (as of 2013) used by CSC folks
- Link to intel's page
- PCIE slot
- Runs with igp driver, which was modified and renamed to igp_emu
- in SL5/igp directory
From the D-Link's manual: they could be installed into a 32 or 64 bit PCI/PCI-X slot with various supported frequences, with the best performance with a 64-bit/133 MHz bus.