Hey all,

I'm looking to see if anyone has a recommendation on a good gigabit NIC that Fedora1 will natively support. It seems that most gig cards require a driver to be built against the kernel source, and each time you upgrade the kernel, the driver must be re-built. As this card is for a server, I'm trying to avoid the whole driver-reinstall every time a new kernel version comes out.

So, I'm hoping someone knows of a NIC I might be able to pick up that Fedora1 will have a driver built-in for.

Worst case, I can always try an upgrade to Fedora2, so if there is a gig card that will work natively with that distro, please suggest those as well.

Thanks in advance for any help.

intel pro1000's work right out of the box

Do you know which driver they use? I have an Intel Pro/1000 card installed into a Fedora 1 machine, and it didn't find it on it's own. I had to download and install the e1000 driver from Intel's site to get it working, which in turn needs to be re-installed every time a new kernel version comes out. I've started not updating the kernel on that machine for just that reason.. it's a hassle to have to remove the card each time, re-install, reboot, and reconfigure it when it's back up.

Maybe the Pro/1000 cards work right away in FC2 though?

they have worked out of the box since 9 for me, never had to re-install a driver once.