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.

Hi,

could you please provide the output of the command .

Also will it be very helpfull if you can tell us which Acer notebook exactly you have.

Hi,

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.

Hi,

The model is Acer Travelmate 5730. I will run the command and post the output of it.

Thank you.