Installing a network card
Hi Guys,
This is the first time i have dealt with anything linux related and im having trouble installing a network card. It is a Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express LAN Controller and I have got the from here http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethe...oaddrivers.php . It took my long enough to get the USB drive mounted but im really struggling to get this driver installed. Have checked through the readme contained in the .zip file and have ran the first step fine (rpm -ivh tg3-<version>.src.rpm) A little progress bar went through to 100% then i tried the next steps but still couldnt get it working. If someone could point me in the right direction on how to get this thing working it would be very much appreciated. Thanks, |
As a newbie you should never ever install any rpm's directly.
Use your paket manager. Which distro you are using? |
Hi uhelp,
I dont think i can access paket manager. Basically ihave a digital signage box i bought and has ran out of warranty and failed. We moved the hardrive into a similar PC and it is booting but wont fully boot as it needs to pickup the network card to proceed. Once it has booted it manages itself and i manage it through a web interface. I'm not sure what you mean by distro. Sorry for being so vague, |
Distro is short for distribution e.g Debian, Redhat, SuSE etc.
Explain what you meant by moved the hardware into a similar PC. Did you just move the hard drive? Post the make and model of the box. It may not matter much but might provide some clues about the original hardware. Post the output of the command: uname -a. |
Hi michaelk,
Sorry, I meant to type replaced hard drive. We took the hard drive from the failed signage and moved it to a hp DX5150 and the network driver is the one i posted above. The distro is Redhat. The instructions ive been trying to follow are these: Code:
Installing Source RPM Package |
Do you know what version of Redhat?
Any error messages? |
1 Attachment(s)
The Distro is:
"Redhat 4.4.5-2" See image for how far i get with regards to instructions please. Thanks, Edit: found distro |
I can not tell from the picture if the command completed successfully.
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Nothing happened after that command it said 100% and then it was just back to how it was before i ran it; waiting for me to enter a command.
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Ok. that command just loaded the source code. Did you follow the rest of the instructions to build and install?
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