problem installing network card in linux RHAS3, kernel is 2.4.
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problem installing network card in linux RHAS3, kernel is 2.4.
hi friends,
Please help me urgently!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a laptop HCL p9912 T2060. I am unable to put up network card in it.The network card is Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. The config of my laptop is
Linux Red Hat Advance Server 3 (kernel version is 2.4)Kudzu utility is unable to find network card.
Please help me. i am in dire need of making it get done.
Kernel was unable to configure the n/w card, i think the driver issue is problem?
Also, is it possible to change the network card of notebook opening it and putting another company card which has network drivers available randomly.
Last edited by oracle_on_linux; 11-04-2007 at 09:36 AM.
Reason: spell mistake
Re: problem installing network card in linux RHAS3, kernel is 2.4
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Originally Posted by oracle_on_linux
I have a laptop HCL p9912 T2060. I am unable to put up network card in it. The network card is Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
The config of my laptop is Linux Red Hat Advance Server 3 (kernel version is 2.4)
Kudzu utility is unable to find network card. Please help me. i am in dire need of making it get done. Kernel was unable to configure the n/w card, i think the driver issue is problem?
Also, is it possible to change the network card of notebook opening it and putting another company card which has network drivers available randomly.
Etherenet network adapters in laptops are soldered to the motherboard and cannot be switched out. On some laptops, you can replace the wirelesss network adapter, but not all.
In this case, I recommend going to OfficeMax and buying a D-Link laptop network adapter and plugging it into the CardBus slot in your laptop. You must make sure that you have a regular (full width) CardBus slot. If you have a newer PCI-e expansion slot, you will have to find a network adapter from D-Link that fits in that.
The reason I recommend D-Link is that they base their adapters around the RealTek chips which are very well supported by kernels as far back as 2.4.
Your other option is to upgrade to a newer kernel that might support your network adapter.
Which is the driver I believe your looking for, this is from the equivalent RHEL 3 update 9 directory (CentOS3.9).
Dear Lenard,
Actually, i went to the site as suggested by you "http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/"
but please help me how can i find the correct rpm. i got something like parent directory etc....... Please help me , i wish to install the unsupported kernel rpms.
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
Posts: 4,790
Rep:
This 2.4.21-4 EL smp i686 kernel is really old, I would suggest updating at least the kernel first so the netowrk interface will work, download and install both of these;
This 2.4.21-4 EL smp i686 kernel is really old, I would suggest updating at least the kernel first so the netowrk interface will work, download and install both of these;
Reboot the system and select the new kernel to boot to. As soon as possible active an RHN account and update the system.
Dear Lenard,
I did as suggested in the above paragraph, and rebooted the system with the new compiled kernel, but was unable to detect and network card automatically or by kudzu.
If u can tell me , should i upgrade to kernel 2.6 or else and if yes then please, how and from where i can do this?
Also, Are the USB network cards costilier?
Any other suggestion regarding network card from ur side?
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