PCI Gigabit Ethernet Cards

Anyone have experience with PCI gigabit ethernet cards for use with Linux?
What I am looking for is a good one to go in a firewall box (P3 450 MHz) that won't take too much cpu to run it. A good 10/100 ethernet card that uses the tulip driver will saturate the net with very little cpu usage. The $10 TrendNet 10/100/1000 that I have tried saturates the cpu at only 5 MB per sec transfer.

Is there something wrong with the built-in interface
or do you want to trunk/bond interfaces or route
between interfaces?
Just experimenting…
The interface that Apple had in G4 Xserves (Broadcomm
chipset) 64 bit PCI would perhaps be a good buy if
you can find it (available as spare part?).
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/osx_networkcards.html
Thanks a lot for the link and the Broadcomm chipset hint.
Meanwhile, I found that the Realtek website features a driver download for Mac OS X 10.4 and Ethernet cards with the 8169S-32 chipset (the one featured by the Digicom card tested).
I think I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes.

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Some months back, I installed a gigabit ethernet card into my G5. It worked fine for a few months, then stopped working with a message: The cable for PCI Ethernet Slot 3, Port 2 is not plugged in. I wasn't working on the project that required that connection, so I just let it go. Now I need to connect to a different gigabit switch. I installed a new D-Link card into the same slot as before - same result. I moved the D-Link card to a different slot - and got the same error - still referring to Slot 3. Just for kicks, I installed the old card back into slot 2 (the one above the video card). Same error - and no mention of finding two cards or of anything in the other slots. It seems as if somehow all of the PCI slots are being ignored.
Running the System Profiler, I get a "No Information Found" for PCI Cards. None of the lights on either ethernet card come on. Any ideas? Everything else on the machine seems to be working correctly - the built-in ethernet is fine. There are a lot of drives connected to the system (4 on the FireWire 800, 1 on FW 400, 4 on USB). Is there some way to force a re-scan of the PCI bus? or turn it on?
Thanks!!
G5 2 X 2 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thomas -
Yes - I tried swapping slots. A gigabit card worked fine in slot 3 for several months. It stopped working - I figured it was the card that was th eproblem. I have since replaced the card, and then moved the new one to a different slot. The Network control panel still reports a card in slot 3, even though there is nothing in slot 3. The new card is in slot 4 (and just for kicks the old card is in slot 2). Neither of these is recognized by the the System Profiler or the network control panel.

Trying to figure out if I have a Gigabit Ethernet card

I'm trying to figure out if I have a gigabit ethernet card - currently, it's operating at 10x slower but I was told that sometimes it can be switched to Gigabit in the settings.
If not, what kind of card should I get?
Thanks!

If yours is a Mac Pro 65lb tower, it has two Ethernet ports, each of which can run at up to Gigabit speeds.
The equipment you connect to must also be capable of Gigabit speeds, but if you have a separate Router and Switch, only the Switch needs Gigabit capability.
The cables you use must have Eight conductors and Eight gold contacts present.

Mac Gigabit Ethernet Cards Network Performance

I now have a 1.8ghz CoreDuo MacMini and 2.0ghz MacBook and both have gigabit Ethernet cards in them, based on the Marvell Yukon chipset i believe.
I was wondering upto what speeds people have driven these ethernet cards?
I'm doing some testing using iperf version 2.0.4 but I can't seem to get any more than around 30MB/sec out of the cards.
Is this their limit? Have you managed to get better out of them? If so, how?
Synology have just brought out a NAS box (DS209), that reads and writes at around 60MB/sec, but pretty pointless unless your ethernet card is upto the same speeds.

If your notation is technically correct, you are saying you are getting 30 megabytes per second as your tested speed. That would translate to 240 megabits per second, which is above the old 100 megabits per second limitation. If this is all accurate, then the next question is what cabling and other equipment are you using to connect the two? If the cabling is not Cat6 (category 6) you may not be able to achieve optimal transfer speeds. If you are using a hub, switch, or router which is not gigabit rated, you would have limitations there.

Qualcomm atheros AR8161 pci gigabit ethernet controller

HELP please! I have called and called and support is not helping. I prefer to used my desktop wired to the internet. But for some reason every so often I get the yellow triangle with the ! symbol. Then I have to switch to wireless. I have called a few times. I even purchased the total care pack. They had me uninstall the qualcomm atheros AR8161 pci gigabit ethernet controller in the device manager. Then restart. Then it works fine. But all of a sudden it goes back to the !triangle and I lose wired connection. It's not my router or modem. My spouse has the exact same computer hooked up the same way and it never has happened to him. Yet it in properties it says its working fine and I've checked for driver updates a zillion times. Sometimes I can go a week with no problem. Sometimes I have to uninstall/reinstall a few times in one day! I am frustrated and the phone help is ridiculous. Anyone have any ideas? I would appreciate it.
~Mary

Hi @mb59 ,
I have brought your issue to the attention of an appropriate team within HP. They will likely request information from you in order to look up your case details or product serial number. Please look for a private message from an identified HP contact. Additionally, keep in mind not to publically post ( serial numbers and case details).
If you are unfamiliar with how the Forum's private message capability works, you can learn about that here.
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Incompatibilities between Gigabit Ethernet PCI cards and Power Mac G5?

Hi,
we recently bought a Digicom PCI LAN GIGA32 Ethernet card to upgrade our Power Mac G5 1.8GHz server. The OS on the G5 is Mac OS X Server 10.4.8 (8L127).
The issue is simple: the PCI card is recognized by the system (it appears in System Profiler and as a new port in System Preference's Network pane) but Mac OS X cannot properly use it. We tried to connect the card to a Gigabit switch but nothing happened: no led denoting the connection speed turned on on the switch and the Network Status view in the System Preference's Network pane still show the red light with the "No cable connected" message.
We noticed this message in system.log:
jedi kernel[0]: AppleRTL8169Ethernet: phyWaitForAutoNegotiation TIMEOUT
So we tried to manually set the Ethernet speed for the card and indeed it reacted, but we managed to have it working only at 10 Mbps (10baseTX).
It seems that AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext [1] is used by Mac OS X to control Ethernet cards featuring the Realtek 8169 chipset but it cannot properly communicate with Digicom's card.
The weird thing is that we tried the same card on a Power Mac G4 and it worked flawlessy. Maybe the issue depens on the PCI-X slots available on the Power Mac G5?
Are there any other report of incompatibilites between Ethernet PCI cards with Realtek chipsets and Power Mac G5?
BTW, we noted that the card's vendor doesn't certify the card for Macintosh systems but we didn't manage to find a PCI Gigabit Ethernet card certified to work with Mac OS X and Power Mac G5 hardware. Could you point me to some PCI Gigabit Ethernet cards proven to work with a Power Mac G5 machine?
[1] file://localhost/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plug Ins/AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext/

Is there something wrong with the built-in interface
or do you want to trunk/bond interfaces or route
between interfaces?
Just experimenting…
The interface that Apple had in G4 Xserves (Broadcomm
chipset) 64 bit PCI would perhaps be a good buy if
you can find it (available as spare part?).
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/osx_networkcards.html
Thanks a lot for the link and the Broadcomm chipset hint.
Meanwhile, I found that the Realtek website features a driver download for Mac OS X 10.4 and Ethernet cards with the 8169S-32 chipset (the one featured by the Digicom card tested).
I think I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes.

Gigabit ethernet + TC doesn't mean gigabit transfer rates to the TC drive..

Alright.... I've spent a ton of time trying to figure this out (probably more than I should have) and I thought I'd post my findings so that either a) I'll save someone else time out there or b) someone can tell me I'm a complete moron
So I had an airport extreme. I replaced it with a Time Capsule. I have a Windows (boooo) PC connecting directly to my TC using a gigabit ethernet card (which I bought specifically connect it to the TC) so (I thought) I could enjoy gigabit transfer speeds to the internal hard drive from the wired PC. I had some fun plans of shoving my itunes directory on the TC and letting appletv sync (yes through my pc) and keeping lots of videos there, etc. Who cares - it'd be at gigabit speeds! But, in reality, things didn't quite work that way (though my itunes directory does still live on my TC...for now).
Well, I had a semi-unique situation to do some pretty massive testing because I have 2 gigabit network cards, 1 100mb network card, and a wireless-n network card and two internal hard drives - both very fast. I also tried Cat 5, Cat 5e, and a Cat 6 cable.
And here's what I (think I) figured out:
The hard drive in TC can not achieve gigabit transfer speeds. Your transfer rates will be limited by the IO to the hard drive. In fact, it can't even come close.
Using my "fastest" setup - so Cat 6, fastest internal drive, gigabit ethernet, and transferring a file exactly 1 gig in size I was able to have a sustained transfer rate of 140 megabit per second - that's 17.4 MB/s for folks not wanting to do the math (that's reading FROM the TC. Writing TO the TC dropped the speed down to 106 megabit/second or 13.35 MB/s). Going to a 5e cable knocked that down to 130 megabit a second. Putting in a Cat 5 cable knocked me down to 110 megabit a second. Switching between my two gigabit network cards did nothing. Switching my cards between two computers did nothing.
Now, just changing the above setup to use my 100Mb network card resulted in these results: 67 megabit read (8.4MB/s) and 65 megabit write (8MB/s)...
And using wireless N, I got about 10MB/s up and down.
And just as a final test, connecting my two computers together using the 2 gigabit network cards through the TC, I was able to achieve standard gigabit speeds.
SO what does this all mean?
I think the IO to the hard drive in the TC can only read at about 140 megabit/s and write at about 110 megabit/s. I'm not sure if it's the HD itself or how it's connecting to the TC - but that's why I'm not aware of anyone getting faster transfer rates to the drive in the TC (maybe you guys are?). The gigabit ports themselves are fine - and if you're doing anything from one gigabit port to another gigabit port you'll be fine.
So stop beating yourself up trying to find some elusive XP specific issue with gigabit transfer rates (though vista had a problem - shocker), or that you must have a defective gigabit card (which is why I have two cards now instead of one :)), or that your cable must be bad ("maybe my cat 5e isn't good enough?")... it's just this drive ... or how the drive is connecting to the network - can't handle the gigabit speeds.
Unless someone else out there has another explanation? Do these speeds mesh with what you're seeing in "optimal" situations? Or maybe there's just a throttle switch for goobers like me using Windows instead of MacOS!

Hi,
the interfaces available today which connect your drives integrated electronics to your computer can handle that speeds. but the drive itself is limited by the mechanical things going on in there
You can get such transfer speeds if the data you request is in the cache of the drives internal electronics for example. Some drives have 8 MB of cache memory. So if you request to read or write less than 8 mb and (in the read case) you are lucky enough to have those few megabytes cached then you may get that performance
Regards,
somi

Gigabit ehternet card in real time PXI chassis

I was reading document # DZ52103_US about general real-time
information. This document states that plug in ethernet, serial, and
GPIB cards are not supported for real-time I/O operations. I want to
use a plug in PXI gigabit ethernet card to transfer data from my real
time PXI chassis to a host laptop computer. Can this be done?

Currently, the only PXI ethernet controllers supported in LabVIEW Real-Time are the PXI-8211 and the PXI-8212. These are not Gigabit cards. This information is documented in the following link and will be updated as ethernet device support in LabVIEW Real-Time changes.
If you have any further questions, please post a reply.
Regards,
Kristi H
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

What file transfer speeds are possible over Gigabit Ethernet - Hatter?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to consider this.
Our still photgraphic studio has a range of MACs all connected via a gigabit D-Link switch to a series of Buffalo NAS raids. Wiring is CAT5e, all devices have gigabit ethernet cards and the link lights on the switch suggest that all devices are connected at that speed.
We currently get file transfer rates of between 5 and 12 MB/s depending on network traffic.
We would like to upgrade our NAS to a NAS/SAN, preferably using the existing wiring (and avoid the expense of Fibrenet). 50 or 60MB/s would be great if possible.
Any ideas for a suitable archtecture and Hardware would be gratefully received. Cable lengths are a maximum of 30 metres.
Paul

I'm getting sustained speeds of 90-100 megabytes/second on a transfer across GigE from one mac to another, both working on high-capacity SATA drives.
It drops to ~65 megabytes per second if the source drive is my 2TB Firewire 800 external.
both rates are right on the real-world maximum for GigE and FW800 respectively, which is a great sign that nothing else is bottlenecking the transfer.
My experience with NAS boxes has been disappointing in the past, with transfer rates of 5-35 MB/sec - painfully slow for large files, which destroys the purpose of NAS for me, which is reasonably high-speed off-computer storage.
I'm MUCH happier, and didn't have to pay very much to set up a Mac with 4 SATA drives onboard, acting as a file server... I'm actually getting files FASTER than I am from a FW800 drive directly attached now.

Mac Pros and 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Is it possible to get 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards for Mac Pros? And, if so, would they make a huge difference, or are there bottlenecks elsewhere in the Mac Pro's architecture that make it pointless?
Also, can anyone recommend a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch?

10GBASE-T
10GBASE-T, or IEEE 802.3an-2006, is a standard released in 2006 to provide 10 gigabit/second connections over conventional unshielded or shielded twisted pair cables, over distances up to 100 m.[2] As of 2007, products remain scarce, but new silicon is expected to make 10GBASE-T switches available in 2008 at a price of less than $500 per port.
[edit]Connectors
10GBASE-T uses 650 MHz versions of the venerable IEC 60603-7 connectors (a.k.a. RJ-45) already widely used with Ethernet.
[edit]Cables
10GBASE-T will work up to 55 metres (180 ft) with existing Category 6 cabling. In order to allow deployment at the usual 100 metres (328 ft), the standard uses a new partitioned augmented Category 6 or "6a" cable specification, designed to reduce crosstalk between UTP cables (formally known as "alien crosstalk"), which, as of August 2007 is still in draft status.
I'd say anything over $100 per port is *Horrendously Expensive*

Dual Channel Gigabit Ethernet on MBP!?

Hi all,
I have a MBP with the ExpressCard/34 slot.
I am wondering, if I get an ExpressCard/34 to Gigabit Ethernet Card can I create a dual channel setup using the MBP's existing Gigabit port and the port on the Express/34?
If this was possible do I also need XSAN?
Cheers

Ned the point of the benchmark is (at least with the Core Duo) that the FSB limits memory access to 5.33 GB/s. Single Channel PC2 5300 667MHz RAM has a bandwidth of 5.33 GB/s. So what does doubling bandwidth via dual-channel to 10.66 GB/s do for you if the FSB is limiting it to 5.33 GB/s anyway. You can saturate the bus twice as fast? It is still saturated.
I am not speakng of saturating RAM, but rather saturating the FSB which is where the bottleneck occurs.
That is what the test is designed to show.
That is why I say that the benefits of 3GB outweigh the benefits of dual-channel. At least in terms of the Core Duo what are you really gaining from the dual-channel? In theory..nothing...in testing...nothing.
Nothing will slow down performance like paging out to a slow hard drive however.
edit
Not trying to be argumentative on this, I just have not seen any evidence of dual-channel having any signficant benefit to performance that would warrant being afraid to give it up for 3GB single-channel.
From Barefeats:
DO MATCHING PAIRS OF MEMORY HELP?
Though we ran the tests above using matching 1GB SODIMMs in both MacBook Pros (for a total of 2GB), we also ran the same tests in the 15" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo with one 1GB SODIMM and one 2GB SODIMM for a total of 3GB of memory. We wanted to see if non-matched modules would cause the MacBook to slow down due to the loss of interleaving.
The answer is "no, it didn't slow down." In some cases we saw a gain in speed. An example is Aperture where the "lift and stamp" ran 11% faster with 3GB of RAM. But that's probably due to the fact that Aperture + OS X = more than 2GB of total memory usage.

Combo USB 2.0 + Gigabit Ethernet PCI Card?

I have been looking feverishly for a manufacturer that makes a Mac-compatible PCI Card that has both USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet on the same card. So far I have not been able to find anything. I am wondering if anyone knows of one that will be compatible with a B&W Powermac with a gig of RAM and a Sonnet G4 500Mhz processor.
On a side note, I know this Mac has limitations pertaining to Hard Drive size and I am curious: If I have a slave drive enabled, is my total combined usable size the 128 limit or can I have 2 120 gig Hard drives? And what is the highest speed drive recommended for the B&W's slow bus?
Kind of a lot of questions... Thanks so much in advance!!!!
-Kurt

I don't know of a Mac-compatible combo card like that. Because of the issues with USB 2.0 cards in Macs, you'll have better compatibility installing one that has an NEC controller chip. This stipulation would narrow the field of recommended combo cards even further, if there were any from which to choose. As for hard drive capacity, the 128 GB limitation applies to each drive - not the sum of two drives, configured as master and slave. If your B&W G3 has a Rev. 1 motherboard, the onboard IDE controller doesn't support master/slave configurations (see "New Features" Section 3 - "Revised IDE Controller Chip" on this page). Depending on the amount of money you wish to invest in your B&W, this Acard AEC-6280M ATA-133 controller card would enable you to take advantage of reasonably-priced, larger capacity drives. About six months ago, I bought a pair of sale-priced Seagate 120 GB drives for $59.99 USD each, when that capacity was being phased out by the retailer. Now, you can often find larger capacity drives for less than that. As for bus speed, an ATA-100 or ATA-133 drive is backward-compatible and will run on the slower, onboard IDE bus in the B&W. The spindle speed for most drives is 7200 RPM, which provides a slight improvement over the slower 5400 RPM drives.

PCI Ethernet card problem.....please help!

Hi everyone, I intalled yesterday a PCI Ethernet card (10/100) on my PowerMac G5.
!0.5 immediately recogenize it and setted it with DHCP mode but internet looks to be slow so I chaged the configuration with static IP but with out any good result.
Internet works but very slooly while the network works great with (10/100 card and fine with integrated gigabit lan).
Someone could help me to understand while the PCI ethernet card doesn't work fine with internet? It's directly connected on a Netgear firewall routrer.....
thanks to everyone

But it could be unsupported the second ethernet on a powermac g5?
No, the fact that it shows up is proof that it works.
What Speeds are you getting with it?...
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
Also, in System Preferences>Network>Show>Ethernet 2>Ethernet tab>Configue:>Manually, try setting the speed lower & Duplex to Half-Duplex, restart required, test that setting.

PRESTO GIGABIT PRO Ethernet Card not detected in Mac OS 10.5.8

Hello,
I am an IT Technician who is troubleshooting an issue with the network card on a PowerMac G5 tower. I have installed the PRESTO GIGABIT PRO Ethernet card (which states that it is compatible with Power Mac G5 (with PCI or PCI-x slots). After I install it, and plug an ethernet cable into the ethernet port on the card, it appears as if it is getting network activity since the LED lights begin to blink on the card. However, when I boot the G5 with Leopard 10.5.8, it does not see the network card in the system profiler under PCI cards. The only PCI card detected is a Broadcom 5702 in PCI slot 3. I have tried seating the card in different PCI slots but I still get the same result. Do you all have any ideas what may be causing this issue and a possible remedy for it? Thanks for any assistance that you can provide.

Hi Bruce, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I can't find the PCI card, just the PCIe card...
http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=164&expand=a3_a2b405&action=b490#b490
http://www.amazon.com/Presto-Gigabit-Ethernet-PCIe-Card/dp/B0017K6BR8
But on a hunch, System Preferences>Network, unlock the Lock if need be, see if you get New Port Detected, or click the little + icon and see if you can add Ethernet.
If it works & that is the Interface used for Internet, click on the little Gear icon>Set Service Order, drag Ethernet to the top.

Network driver "broadcom NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe" Solaris 11

Hi All,
I am running Solaris 11/11 X86-64 on my DELL Laptop XPS Studio 1645. All is working fine except for the network driver for Broadcom NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe.
On Oracle HCL for Oracle Solaris OS site, they have the driver for Solaris 10/8. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/hcl/1362598.html
Does anyone know if there is a similar driver for Solaris 11?
Note: I tried to installed the driver for Solaris 10 on Solaris 11 server, it failed.
The network card is an onboard network card on my DELL laptop, I can change it.
Many thanks in advance for you help.
Teck.

What information do you get from Device Driver Utility? (Applications>System Tools)
Have you looked here: http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/hcl/devicelist/index.html

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