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ThinkCentre M52 and Network-Driver

Started by Thomas, 2008.05.29, 10:02:06

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Thomas

Hello,

I have just bought a ThinkCentre M52 and do not succeed in installing the onboard-network-card. Can anybody tell me if there is a network-driver for the ThinkCentre M52 Modell 8113-28G?
On the Lenovo/IBM site a driver is named but it does not do its job.
Thanks in advance.

Thomas

warpcafe

Hi Thomas,

according to what I've understood from the site, it's basically the usual Intel Pro100/1000 driver?
I've took the effort and downloaded q37z53usa.exe from Lenovo... after self-extraction, it shows the standard Pro100/1000 drivers files in the "OS2" subfolder....

I suggest you simply use the drivers that come with your OS for this card - which flavor are you using? OS/2? eCS? And what version? Also check if the onboard network card was probably disabled in the BIOS.

Let us know how things are going.

Cheers, HTH
Thomas (yet another one... :) )
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that"
- G.H. Hardy

Thomas

Hello Thomas,

I already, did just what you suggested.
But these drivers do not do the job.
I am running MCP2 for quite a long while and therefor am sure installing the drivers correctly.
And I also did check if the onboard-NIC is enabled in the BIOS.

I did make the same experiences when installing MCP2 on my T42p.
In that case I got a driver from an OS/2-expert that works. My hopes are, that someone has a driver for the M52 already.
In case I do not get one, I have to install a PCI-network-card.
So long.

Thomas

warpcafe

Hi Thomas,

okay... usually I would suspect that the NIC manufacturer does not have up-to-date drivers for OS/2 on their website since this would be wasting time (as OS/2 is officially no longer marketed nor supported by IBM). And most of these manufacturer-provided drivers are basically still the same since when Warp3 came out I suppose... so did you have any means to check if the drivers that come with eCS are "better" or work?

Then, what does it actually "display" when the drivers loasd... I mean - what is the symptoms?
Last possible solution that comes to my mind is to use the PCI sniffer tool to check the exact ID strings of the NIC to see whether it's perhaps a special flavored type or chipset...

Cheers,
Thomas
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that"
- G.H. Hardy

The Blue Warper

Hi, Thomas!

I don't know if this can be any useful to you, but...

According to
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60400
your NIC is listed as "Integrated Intel Gigabit Ethernet with Intel 82573E".

The "Network adapters" page in the "Hardware" section of eComstation.ru website has an entry that lists 82573e as unsupported, but no updated news since then (2005):
http://en.ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=item&id=626

Now, this very chip is discussed in this thread
http://osdir.com/ml/netlabs.genmac.user/2006-09/msg00063.html

Since last post was from Adrian Gschwend who asked for PCI ID, MAYBE support for this chipset was integrated into some GenMac release. 

You may also want to try the NICPAK package by Chuck McKinnis ( http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=nicpak ), but the Intel package there apparently comes with the same drivers as those pointed to in the above netlabs.genmac.user thread (i.e. http://osdir.com/ml/netlabs.genmac.user/2006-09/msg00063.html ).  Chuck also has his own personal page ( http://www.7cities.net/~mckinnis/os2/ ), where you can also find GENPAK, "a small selective installation utility for the GenMac drivers".

This page:
http://driverscollection.com/?H=PRO/1000%20GT%20Desktop%20Adapter&By=INTEL&SS=OS/2
apparently has a link to an OS/2 driver for 82573 NIC, but the package has the same drivers as those included in http://os2warp.be/nicpak/files/intel.zip .

So, in short (sorry for this probably useless list of sites...):
try some Intel driver first (perhaps the one provided in the NICPAK package); if this doesn't work (and I fear this may unfortunately be your case, according to the reports I found on the net), then try GenMac package (latest public version is at ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/genmac/ ).  If your NIC isn't listed as supported, you might try setting the option "UNSUPPORTED" in the protocol.ini file (IIRC).  This may or may not solve your problem, but I don't really know too much about that.  Please refer to http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/ for details.  There was a thread about this option some time ago.  You might ask in that newsgroup if there's anyone who managed to install the same NIC as yours.

Well, this is all I can do.  Hope this helps a bit.  Good luck!

RobertM

If you have access to the eComStation Driver Area, you may wish to try the version of the Intel 10/100/1000 drivers that are there. Otherwise, someone online has a version slightly earlier which you may wish to try. I have a bunch of Pro/1000 cards, all of which worked with the default driver that comes with Warp Server for e-Business CP2 PF (should be the same driver you are trying).

Have you tried the drivers that come with MCP2? Also, you may have to set a card/slot ID - or make sure none is set. I dont know how that works on onboard cards. With the "plug into a slot" cards, the card and machine report which slot it is in. Setting that info is possible through MPTS.

Otherwise, do a thorough check through the driver documentation that you got from Lenovo (assuming they provided docs with the driver) to see if there is anything special to do.

If you used the "Add Card"/"Add Driver" method:
As an alternate method, you may wish to (first, de-install the driver instance using MPTS), copy the driver files into the IBMCOM\MACS directory, then try to reinstall the driver (it will now be on the list). Occassionally, I have had problems using the "Add driver" method as it doesnt seem to copy some cards' driver files to that directory correctly.

Robert


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Raiko

Better late than never......
Just though I'd let you know that the 82573E works with the latest Genmac
when using the "UNSUPPORTED" option.