Network Card Driver intialize on server reboot
 

When server restart, the network card driver required to be reinstall.
This network card is working fine before 3-4 Days.

Let me explain it in detail. Our production server was running smoothly. Our network engineer removed network driver from graphical user interface mistakenly. Now we have installed the network drive again as reommanded in network driver configuration document provided by IBM using following steps
tar -xvzf bcm5700-7.1.9.tar.gz
cd src
make install
After installing network driver and seting network config, server available on network. But when we restart this machine, it again disapear from network and ping command display "network unreachable".
We have to reinstall network driver on server whenever we restart it.

Software
Linux 2.1
Hardware configuration
Model
IBM eServer x 365
RAID Version
4Mx Ultra 160
Processor
Intel MP 2.0 Ghz * 2
RAM
1Gb X 4
Hard Disk (Before RAID imp)
146 GB x 3
NIC
10/100/1000 *2
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Thanks
Sajjad

howzit

Are u using the following cmd when installing the Nic drivers insmod if so each time u reboot this is removed from the modules of the kernel and is not perminent. Try using the cmd modprobe and this will do the opposite of what I mentioned and place the driver as a module in the kernel. To view if this has been placed as a kernel module do a lsmod.

If the above does not work send me the cmds u are using and I will giva u a alternative way

cheers

I am using the following method to install the driver
Installing Source RPM Package
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1. Install the source RPM package:

rpm -ivh bcm5700-<version>.src.rpm

2. CD to the RPM path and build the binary driver for your kernel:

cd /usr/src/{redhat,OpenLinux,turbo,packages,rpm ..}

rpm -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec


3. Install the newly built package (driver and man page):
3. Install the newly built package (driver and man page):

rpm -ivh RPMS/i386/bcm5700-<version>.i386.rpm

Note that the --force option is needed if installing on Red Hat 7.2, 7.3,
2.1AS and others that already contain an older version of the driver.
2.2.x kernels:

/lib/modules/<kernel_version>/net/bcm5700.o

2.4.x kernels:

/lib/modules/<kernel_version>/kernel/drivers/net/bcm5700.o

2.4.x kernels with bcm5700 as an addon driver (e.g. Red Hat 7.3, 2.1AS):

/lib/modules/<kernel_version>/kernel/drivers/net/bcm/bcm5700.o

4. Load the driver:

insmod bcm5700
5. after this I add intel ether pro 1000 driver from graphical user interface and set the network config such as ip, hostname and then restart network services after then system work find.
5. lsmod command display the following info
Module Size Used by Not tainted
bcm5700 114852 1
ide-cd 35296 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 35520 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
soundcore 7940 0 (autoclean)
nfsd 80704 8 (autoclean)
lockd 61184 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 86032 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
autofs 13796 0 (autoclean) (unused)
usbcore 68896 1
ext3 73536 6
jbd 55048 6 [ext3]
ips 42140 7
sd_mod 13468 7
scsi_mod 125084 2 [ips sd_mod]