Hello, I am Benoit (call me ben) and I am trying to migrate an old Gateway to a newer hardware...

It seems to be an old redhat 8.0 and of course I don't have the sources.

the kernel running is 2.4.24 (it's date is 2004)
the old hardware running on aVMware have a e1000 card, my new hardware have a Via-Rhine VT6102. this my biggest problem, the other HW is not so important, this is a network Appliance, without graphics/mouse...

the /etc/module.conf is correct (alias eth0 via-rhine) instead of (alias eth0 e1000)

modprobe -l
/lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.o

(this the only file in the /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel directory...)
I tried with a via-rhine.o from a 2.4.18-14 but this not the good version.

Is there a way to found the .o file for my network card ?

I am a real newbie on linux, I'm usually works on Microsoft environments...
but 20 years ago I was support on SVR4.2 unix systems and still remember vi commands...

any idea should be fine !!!

Ben, from Paris.

dmesg should give hints as to what driver (kernel module aka .o/.ko) has claimed a device. Plus lsmod to see what modules are loaded. And various other things from /var/log/ (if logging isn't disabled) should give hints. Otherwise the vendor:device number can be grepped in the kernel tree for matches.