Installing Additional Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Card
 

I'm in the process of trying to get a network card recognised by my RHEL 2.1AS (kernel 2.4.9-e.34) server.

Originally when the server was commissioned, it contained 2 Broadcom NetXtreme onboard NIC's. I'm now installing an additional Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port NIC.

My issue is that I cannot get the system to recognise the new card. I've installed the Intel 4.3.15-e1000 driver. However when I run "insmod e1000", I get:
"Using /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.34smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000.o
/lib/modules/2.4.9-e.34smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters"

I've also tried running: "rpm -tb 2.4.9-e.34.tar.gz" to build an rpm. This process did produce the relevant .rpm file and it installed successfully using "rpm -ivh <rpm-file>.

In both of the above scenarios, the e1000.o file exists in the correct directory. Also there are no additonal ifcfg-eth<x> files created. I'm absolutely stumped, can someone please help?

TIA.

Of course. Red Hat support is the place to ask your question about installing kernel modules. RHEL 2.1AS is very old and I doubt there are people on this forums that will be able to help you without great pains of trial, errors and guessing. On the other hand, you are paying Red Hat just for this type of situation.

Many thanks for the reply. I suspect that RedHat support will not offer help on a retired product but I'll give it a try. I'm on Premier level support so maybe they will help out.

As suspected. As the O/S has been retired by Red Hat, they no longer offer support for the product.

I would suggest you find some other NIC that will work without additional drivers if possible.

Good news. Managed to get it going. I downloaded the very latest drivers from the Intel website (although it said that these drivers weren't for my kernel version). Anyway once downloaded, created an RPM file and installed without any hitches. I then downloaded the latests iANS package (also from the Intel site). This time I installed iANS using "make install".

Some configuration changes then required to the interface scripts and lo-and-behold, I've got a working NIC (currently active and running on the network). Just need to test the failover capabilities later.