Other than frys where would you get server hardware

[Stephen]

well i have a couple of old cards a rtl and a 3com i think... and the
intel dual gig-e...

but frys is mostly about it unless you want to order
newegg/tiger/other similar mifddle man

i suppose if you call about there are shops locally that will do it.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:17 PM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
> 10 years ago I used to recompile kernels almost every day to get it to
> support the hardware I had, now days it is a rarety.  I'm scheduled to
> install the firewall on Friday but I've sent the better part of 3 days
> building and rebuilding smoothwall to try to get it to support the network
> cards in a Dell T105 server.  In their infinite wisdom they won't let you
> proceed with the install until you've configured at least one network card.
> Mandriva 2009 shows them as NetXtreme BCM5722 gigabit PCI Express (card on
> MB) and DGE-560T Ethernet Adapter (PCIe X1).
>
> I have the source for both drivers (sk98lin for both).  I'm about to give up
> and try to find a dual nic intel card that will fit in this machine
> (supposedly supported).
> This machine only has 1 3.3v pci slot, 1 PCIeX1, and 2 PCIeX8 slots.
>  Who might carry such a network card in town (Fry's only has a Dlink card
> DGE-560T above)?
> --
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