Network Card is not detected by RHEL 5 on my Laptop
Hello everybody,
I have just joined Linuxquestions today. I have an Acer Laptop and I am trying to use Linux Redhat 5 on it but for some reason the NIC is not detected by Linux. It is a bit surprising to me that the same problem was seen in my desktop computer but after changing the NIC to a different slot the Linux OS detected the NIC and it is working fine but my laptop still has the same problem. From troubleshooting point of view: 1. Installed Linux multiple times but it didn't work. 2. Tried to add the hardware (NIC) but it didn't work. Note: The NIC was working fine when I first installed Linux but after sometime it didn't. The laptop is dual boot (Windows & Linux) when I boot via windows the NIC works fine but not with Linux. NIC Details: Device Type: Network Adapter Manufacturer: Broadcom Location: PCI bus 2, device 0, function 0 Suggestions are welcome. |
RHEL 5 was designed to be a stable server OS, not for desktop use with recent hardware. If you want to stay in the family you can run Fedora and put RHEL 5 in a vm to play with, or just run it under a vm in Windows.
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Hi,
could you please provide the output of the command Code:
lspci -v Also will it be very helpfull if you can tell us which Acer notebook exactly you have. |
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I guess you didn't read my post completely. RHEL 5 is working fine on my desktop computer. The problem is wit the Laptop, linux is not detecting the NIC. |
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The model is Acer Travelmate 5730. I will run the command and post the output of it. Thank you. |
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