ethernet card not detected in red hat 5.3 in dell inspiron 1525 laptop

[cpgupta0210]

i have installed red hat 5.1 on my dell inspiron 1525 laptop.
It is not detecting any ethernet card.
driver is marvel yukon 88E8040

So far i found this package to be installed “kmod-sk98lin-PAE-10.70.7.3-2.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm” but it is showing me the dependencies problems..

[reed9]

The driver you need is called sky2. I believe sk98 is deprecated.

However, I did find a bug report that support for your card was removed in RHEL 5.1.

I would suggest upgrading to RHEL 5.5. If you do not have a paid RHEL license, you might want to switch to a free (as in beer) RHEL clone, like Scientific Linux or CentOS.

The issue will probably be resolved in a current release.

[Rubberman]

Have you looked on Dell's web site for a Linux driver package for this? FWIW, running RHEL and clones on laptops is not generally advised because of hardware issues like this. You can try upgrading to 5.5 (RHEL, CentOS, SciLinux as mentioned), but my advice for Dell laptops is to install Ubuntu 9.04. I've had the fewest problems with that and have it installed on 3 Dell laptops, including a Latitude, Inspirion, and netbook. Absolutely zero hardware issues on any of them.

[meton_magis]

Have you looked on Dell's web site for a Linux driver package for this? FWIW, running RHEL and clones on laptops is not generally advised because of hardware issues like this. You can try upgrading to 5.5 (RHEL, CentOS, SciLinux as mentioned), but my advice for Dell laptops is to install Ubuntu 9.04. I've had the fewest problems with that and have it installed on 3 Dell laptops, including a Latitude, Inspirion, and netbook. Absolutely zero hardware issues on any of them.

If you are wanting to stick with a redhat based distro, Fedora would be a better choice, as it includes much of the same stuff that goes into a RHEL release.