centos5.1 won't recognise eth1 nic card
 

hello , i have installed centos5.1, it won't recognise eth1 network device. when i install centos5.3, it does recognise the device which i use private network. same thing happen when i use older version of oracle enter prise linux. i use giga bythe pci network card from intellinet. i also tried another nic card from us robotis with same result. in the intellenet help file it says following which i don't under stand the task. any one has any idea. i am trying to install oracle rac in two node thanks in advance

1. This driver supports RealTek RTL8169s/8110s Gigabit Ethernet driver for Linux kernel 2.4.x.
2. Installation steps:
(1)Compiling r8169.c using 'Makefile'.
"make"
<NOTE>Please remember to ASSIGN "NEW_INCLUDE_PATH" in Makefile according to linux kernel.
(2)Move r8169.o to the directory "/lib/modules/<kernel>/kernel/drivers/net".

"cp r8169.o /lib/modules/<kernel>/kernel/drivers/net"

where <kernel> represents the kernel version, say 2.4.18-3 in Red Hat 7.3

Sure, did you download a tarball of the driver? Untar it, edit Makefile, find the line starting with
NEW_INCLUDE_PATH
and change it's value to whatever the output of uname -r is (Well, almost- mine is 2.6.26-2-686 so I'd change to 2.6.26-2).
Then just use make to build it. Of course, you'll need the build-essential package.

After this, find the file "r8169.o" and move it to where it says.

Easy.

If Centos 5.3 works, use that; its free and will always be more up to date.

centos5.1 won't recognise eth1 nic card
 

Thanks for the help. I am building 2 node RAC cluster following jeff hunter's blog which use centos 5.1. I tried using 5.3 but getting following error while mounting second node.

[root@linux2 /]# mount -t ocfs2 -o datavolume,nointr -L "oracrsfiles" /u02
mount.ocfs2: Transport endpoint is not connected while mounting /dev/sdb1 on /u02.

(8519,1):o2net_connect_expired:1585 ERROR: no connection established with node 0 after 30.0 seconds, giving up and returning errors.
(8914,1):dlm_request_join:901 ERROR: status = -107
(8914,1):dlm_try_to_join_domain:1049 ERROR: status = -107
(8914,1):dlm_join_domain:1321 ERROR: status = -107
(8914,1):dlm_register_domain:1514 ERROR: status = -107
(8914,1):ocfs2_dlm_init:2024 ERROR: status = -107
(8914,1):ocfs2_mount_volume:1133 ERROR: status = -107
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[root@linux1 ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
27.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
public Network -(eth0)
192.168.2.100 linux1


Currently i am trying with CENTOS4 . if it failed then i will try to run the make command and use 5.1.

i have following file in the instalation cd.
Makefile, R8169.

priviously i copied these 2 file in the /tmp folder and then try to run the make command. I am new bie in linux. Please let me know whether i need to copy somewhere else and then try to run the command.

centos5.1 won't recognise eth1 nic card
 

what is tarball of the driver?

"centos5.1 won't recognise eth1 nic car
 

Hi James,
my kernel version is [root@linux1 src]# uname -r
2.6.18-53.el5

there are three file in comes with the installation cd but they are for linux 2.4X

Makefile R8169.C README.TXT

following is my current makefile
---
# Makefile for a basic kernel module

CC=gcc
MODCFLAGS := -O6 -Wall -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX
NEW_INCLUDE_PATH=-I /usr/src/linux-2.6.18-53/include/

r8169.o: r8169.c /usr/include/linux/version.h
$(CC) $(MODCFLAGS) $(NEW_INCLUDE_PATH) -c r8169.c

clean:
rm *.o -f
-----------------------------------
i copied all the file to /tmp/ETH1
i type make i got following error
make: *** no rule to make target 'r8169.c' needed by 'r8169.0'. stop

Also there are only two directory no linux
[root@linux1 ETH1]# cd /usr/src
[root@linux1 src]# ls
kernels redhat


What am i doing wrong. thanks in advance