I have Red Hat Linux 8.0 installed on a HP XT983. My sound and NIC are not functioning. Both are built into motherboard. Any help would be great!

NIC, now there's an odd one, RH is usually good with those. Instead of trying to track down the specs online, could you give us the output of:

/sbin/lspci -v

They're bound to be PCI devices, so I can figure out what modules drive these things. Hopefully this isn't too new as to be unsupported.

Cheers,

Finegan

This is what is says for audio and network; As I said there both built into motherboard, they have the same IRQ 5. Is this any help?


00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc.: Unknown device 315c
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1014 [size=4]
I/O ports at 1010 [size=4]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139
C= (rev 10)
Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc.: Unknown device 315c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

This looks odd to me, those are both kinda generic devices, really generic actually. Does RedHat's "soundcfg" or it might be "sndconfig" or maybe just "soundconfig" command line utility hiccup and die trying to figure out what it is?

The other is just another Realtek clone:

modprobe 8139too

Should get the device to show up as eth0. IRQ sharing is something modern mobos have been able to do for a couple of years, there's still a lot of dated pages all over the web.

Cheers,

Finegan