Ethernet card problems on my RED HAT LINUX 7.3 box.

[br_fusion]

I'm a newb so bare with me. I put in a ethernet card in after I installed RED HAT. The card has no discs nor drivers with it. When I boot up the computer, one of the processes fails, something about eth0. And when I got to activate the ethernet card, it fails. Though I think it detects it.
Any ideas? good websites for help?

thanks fellas

[mdwatts]

Very, very popular topic here at LNO.

PnP OS disabled in the bios?

Do you know what module/driver your ethernet card uses or at least what brand/model it is?

Also try a few forums searches for i.e. 'eth0 failed'.

[gaijinsan]

lol. . .having just gone through this, check a couple of things. . .

BIOS
PnP Aware OS should be "NO"
Make sure that the BIOS is updated/properly flashed (went to hell and back to figure out my BIOS didn't flash correctly)

Linux
Check for hardware compatibility (just search for RedHat Hardware HOWTO)

If it's compatible, use

lspci

command in console. . .it will show you where the kernel sees your PCI cards (or if, even it sees them). Look at the first column. . .for example, 00:05.0 is IRQ 5 (the second two digits are what you're after. . btw it's in hex, so 0a is 10, 0b is 11, etc.)

If you've got IRQ sharing, move one of the cards to a different slot.

If everything is cool IRQ wise, use

lsmod

to see what modules (ie M$ drivers) are loaded. . .if you don't see the proprer one for your NIC, you'll have to compile it.


Once you can get Linux to "see" your NIC, setting up the connection is a breeze (as long as you're using DHCP).


BTW - thanks mdwatts, for the help in my earlier post.

PS> have not played CS in years, but I used to be the guy you never saw who kicked ur a** with the silenced TMP. . ..hahahaha

[baragon0]

The RedHat compatibility list isn't that good, for the record.