well, i just built my new system

i installed redhat 9 on one of my hard drives
i have a Gigabyte - 8KNXP mother board with built in
nic...i cant get the damn thing to recognize the nic

any help on this issue would be much appreciated.


-dave

Well, what kind of NIC is it.. we can't guess cause there are literally probably hundreds or thousands of types out there....

blah you cant guess?!?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...038&CatId=1139

those are the specs on the motherboard...thats all i know about the nic.....also i am using a cable modem...if thats relevant

After reading the book on that page.. , I came to conclusion and halfway thru they finally mention the NIC is an Intel PRO/1000 which you can find the dirvers or information on supporting the card on their site at : http://www.intel.com/support/network...inux/e1000.htm

Good luck...

thanks much

i am sure i will be back to pester you nice people very soon

We'll be here waiting..

Hope that works out well for you though. Run into anything regarding it, don't hesitate to ask.

yeah okay...i am back

i downloaded the right drivers boot up linux
and realize i have no clue as to how i am supposed to
install these drivers

once again....help would be much appreciated

They do have instructions on that same page: http://www.intel.com/support/network...00.htm#install

You will have to have gcc installed on Redhat to compile from source however. Login as root at a terminal or console, su -, to find out if you have gcc installed. You can simply type gcc and hit tab twice for all available commands in your path. See if gcc is listed or try gcc -V or is it lowercase, can't remember to see if spits out some version number. Anyways, if its not installed, you most likely can obtain it from your Redhat installation cd's to install before compiling this driver from intel.

Oh another way to find out since your on or using Redhat, its rpm based and you can search the rpm database like this to see if its installed:

rpm -qa | grep gcc*

Let us know....

i followed the directions on the site
got to here:
Compile the driver module:

make install

i compiled....something....then i became confused
i know i know hard to beleive.