Need driver for DEC quad card NIC

[ddolecki108]

# lspci | grep -i ether

07:04.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
07:05.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
07:06.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
07:07.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
08:04.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
08:05.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
08:06.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
08:07.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)

]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.14.0-404.el9.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan 4 21:14:38 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[jlehtone]

Run lspci -nn | grep -i ether to get device ID. One does usually search driver with the ID.

[ddolecki108]

# lspci -nn | grep -i ether
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1681] (rev 10)
07:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
07:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
07:06.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
07:07.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
08:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
08:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
08:06.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
08:07.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 [1011:0019] (rev 41)
[root@localhost src]#

Still no luck finding the driver....

[jlehtone]

The RHEL 7 had module tulip that did support device 1011:0019. RHEL 8 does not, nor RHEL 9.

You can post a request for the driver to ELRepo: https://elrepo.org/bugs/my_view_page.php
ELRepo does build kernel modules that RHEL does lack.

[jlehtone]

One more thing ...

ELRepo builds kernel modules that work with RHEL kernels.
CentOS Stream kernel does not have to look like RHEL kernel, and usually does not.
Hence, kernel modules built for RHEL kernels do not usually work with Stream kernels.

One would be better of with RHEL or one of the distros that is compatible with RHEL, than with CentOS Stream.
For example, AlmaLinux OS, Rocky Linux, or Oracle Linux.


The CentOS Stream is awesome for its current purpose, but that purpose is not to be a Linux distro that is used in production.

[ddolecki108]

Appreciate the wealth of information that you have shared. The folks at Elrepo have provided the driver. I may move to Rocky Linux.