hi, i have the same problem with my silan sc92031 nic,
I have Vicidialnow 1.3 based on centos 5.4 installed in a server but it seams like my nic silan sc92031 is not compatible with the kernel 2.6.28
so what can i do do make my nic works?
thanks.

I have moved your post into a separate thread----It is normally better not to post in old threads--even if your issue is similar.

Have you looked for a driver using the package manager?

AND--Welcome to LQ!!

hi,
i have a linux with kernel 2.6.28 installed in a server but the directory /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts did not have any ifcfg-eth0 in it.
the result of the command netstat -rn is empty.
i have the soft copy of the driver file that came with the NIC card.
it has following files:
°²×°ÊÖ²á.txt
readme.txt
Makefile
sc92031.c
[root@localhost sc92031]# uname -r
2.6.28-146.e15.vnow


[root@localhost sc92031]# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:52089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:52089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:412434 (3.9 MiB) TX bytes:4124034 (3.9 MiB)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

anyone could help me plz?
thanks.

I have merged your 2 similar threads---one thread per topic please.

Repeating my previous question:
Have you looked for a driver using the package manager?

hi, i don't think i know how to do that.
could you give me the commands to do that?
thanks.

i already have the driver in a CD that came with it i tried to install it the following errors keep coming up while i enter make:
{
Makefile:62: ***
Makefile:63: *** Warning: kernel source version ()
Makefile:64: *** does not match running kernel (2.6.18-164.e15.vnow)
Makefile:65: *** continuing with build,
Makefile:66: *** resulting driver may not be what you want
Makefile:67: ***
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.e15.vnow/build/include/linux/config.h: Warning: #warning Including config.h is deprecated.
}
what should i do?

The package manager should appear in your menus somewhere---it might be called something like "add/remove software".

In the terminal, I think it is "yum". Try entering "man yum" for the manual page.

You have a CD with a Linux driver?

The Makefile errors are telling you that the kernel source code does not match your kernel. This is also a job for the package manager, but you can check in /usr/src to see that the directory name matches the output of "uname -r"

yes i have the CD with the linux driver,

uname -r returns:
2.6.18-164.e15.vnow
ls /usr/src return:
astguiclient debug kernels
ls kernels return:
2.6.18-164.e15.vnow-i686

what to do now?

i think i wasn't really clear i have Vicidialnow 1.3 installed based on Centos 5.4 server edition I don't have a graphic mode so i have to do every thing with commands.

and as i want to install the network card driver i have internet access from another PC, so idon't know how if the packages manager installation needs always an internet connection or not?
and if it don't i found a package named sc92031-slx609.lzm but executing the command yum install -y sc92031-slx609.lzm returns:
loaded plugins: fastestmirror
loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?releas...86&repo=addons error was
[Errno 4] IOError:<urlopen error (-3,'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons

i installed the windows driver using the netslnt.inf and the slnt.sys files
with the ndiswrapper command i did:
ndiswrapper -i netslnt.inf
ndiswrapper -l
it said that the driver was installed but steel no ifcfg-eth0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
and the result of netstat -rn is nothing.
i think i hit a dead end here, what can i do next?