Help, linux install didnt detect my onboard nic!! I use centos 4.1

I have the IntelD945Psn board, it came with a CD but only has drivers for windows for the lan

How can I get the nic to work with linux? Where can I download CentOS drivers?

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ahh you're new to this right? You can't download CentOS's driver for it. CentOS doesn't make a driver for it. This is because it's part of the Linux kernel already, which is outside to realm of "Centos" as an entity. in brief, if you have a PRO/1000 chipset just do "modprobe e1000" and that should be it... you'll have an eth0 ready to configure. if this works you'd put a permanent entry in /etc/modules.conf saying "alias eth0 e1000" and it'll load on boot. those three words are all that the "detection" would do. but you can always run kudzu manually to try to detect it anyway...

Thanks!

I am having the same problem with a board with a
Onboard Marvell 8053 chip, how would I find the modprobe command for that?

Do i need a driver for that one?
Notes and Observations:The On-Board Marvell 8053 Gigabit Lan chip wasn't detected by normal install , must get driver file install-8_16.tar.bz2 then install and set it up.

Where do I get install-8_16.tar.bz2?

OK, well that is slightly closer to the bone actually, but from what i recall the sk98lin module is where you want to be looking, which *should* be part of your default kernel. run "modprobe sk98lin" and see if the last few lines of "demsg"'s output look happy. if that works, you'd just add a line "alias eth0 sk98lin" to /etc/modprobe.conf and that'll load it on boot each time.

root@server109 [~]# dmesg -c
root@server109 [~]# modprobe sk98lin
modprobe: Can't locate module sk98lin
root@server109 [~]# dmesg
root@server109 [~]#

It doesnt seem to find it, is there anything else I can try?