RHEL 4.5 ES not picking built in LAN

[ilusionns]

Hi i am using intel board DP35Dp mother board, my installation was very smooth but linux is not picking the built in network card .
please advice accordingly.

[trunty]

I believe that is NIC should be using the e1000 module. First I would run 'dmesg | grep -i eth' and see if it seeing anything NIC related. Then I would run 'modprobe -l | grep e1000' to confirm that the e1000 module is present. Then I would add a line in '/etc/modprobe.conf' 'alias eth0 e1000'.

Let us know if any of these steps hang you up or if the module is not present. Once you have added the modprobe.conf a network restart should work, however, it may require a reboot. Once this has been done you can confirm that everything is working by running 'dmesg | grep e1000' and see if the NIC is present.

[ilusionns]

it didnt help .
any other suggestions

[waterhead]

Post the output of this command, it will list all PCI type hardware.

/sbin/lspci -nn

[ilusionns]

Hi Guys,
i have installed and driver for nic e1000 module. it is showing in lsmod list. but still etho does seesm to be present .
please advice any suggestion .
i am on RHEL AS 5.0 fresh installation.
MB intel DP35DP.

regards,
bilal

[waterhead]

That usually means that you didn't install the correct driver. If you had posted the info that I asked for, I would have helped you. I guess you don't need my help.

Good luck

[ilusionns]

hi ,
its not like that i dont need ur help but the steps u told me didnt provide any results.
here i tried again /sbin " lspci -nn

00:1a.0 Class 0604 8086:29c0 ( rev 02)
i have so many lines like that which i cant type here



please advice accordingly

regards
bilal

[buccaneere]

Copy and paste the return info.

[HROAdmin26]

Intel's Documentation > Motherboard

Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Intel's NIC Driver Download => 82566

This download is also valid for the products listed below. Use the links below for additional product downloads:

Intel® 82566 Gigabit Ethernet PHY

Installation README File

[waterhead]

hi ,
its not like that i dont need ur help but the steps u told me didnt provide any results.
here i tried again /sbin " lspci -nn

00:1a.0 Class 0604 8086:29c0 ( rev 02)
i have so many lines like that which i cant type here



please advice accordingly

regards
bilal

OK

Let's try it a different way. Just run the lspci command alone, without any options.

lspci

If you need to use a Windows PC to post the info, you can output it directly as a text file. You can then copy the text file to a USB drive, and post it here.

lspci > lspci.txt

The file should be found in your home folder.

Until we know exactly what network card you have, trying anything else will just lead to frustration. I don't want you trying a lot of dead ends, it doesn't help the "Linux Experience".