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Tanmoy82 02-08-2013 04:42 AM

Unable To Activate Ethernet Network Device in RHEL 5.5
 
Hi All,

Could anyone please help to resolve the below problem.
I installed RHEL5.5 in my desktop.But when i try to activate the ethernet connection then it gives me the error.
#ifup eth0
e1000 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.


I spent 4 days for the above and go through with several suggestion found by googling. But no luck.
Please help me.

Below are the some command & result which i executed on my machine.

[root@localhost ~]# lspci -vv | grep -i net
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1503 (rev 05)
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep eth
You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@localhost ~]#
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-194.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 22:00:21 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep -i eth
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1503 (rev 05)

[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 0100 (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1503 (rev 05)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1c5c (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. Unknown device 8892 (rev 30)

Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

smallpond 02-08-2013 10:42 AM

RHEL 5.5 is old, Sandy Bridge is new. You are swimming against the tide trying to run an old Linux against new hardware. Update to RHEL 6.3 would be best.

Quote:

Intel Corporation Unknown device 1503
means it probably has no driver for this device.

wstewart 02-09-2013 06:03 AM

modprobe e100. If that doesn't work then recompile the kernel with support for your NIC. Or just update to a newer version of RedHat like smallpond said or at least update to a newer kernel with yum and see if that newer kernel has built in drivers that support your card.

chrism01 02-11-2013 01:55 AM

You can first try to update to 5.9 (latest), but if that doesn't help, I agree with moving up to 6.3

NB: in-place upgrades between minor versions (eg 5.5=> 5.9) are supported; just use 'yum update'.
However, in-place upgrades(!) across major version s eg 5.x => 6.x are NOT supported.; you'll need to backup important data/cfgs and do a fresh install.
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/...ted_Notes.html


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