On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:01 -0400, Bill Tangren wrote: > Michael Kearey wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:35 -0400, Bill Tangren wrote: > > > >>I just purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2800 and installed Linux on it. I have > >>installed Linux on several boxes and had few problems, but I definitely > >>have a problem this time. > > > > > > There are several flavours and versions of 'Linux' around. Since you > > posted in redhat-list, it is safe to assume that it's Red Hat OS. But > > what version, and what release: > > > > cat /etc/redhat-release > > RHEL ES4 > > > > > > > I don't know of any specific problem with the e1000 modules for RHEL 3 > > or 4, but it is very likely that a simple update of the system will > > help. > > > > > > So if you have RHEL3 or 4 and registered with RHN, : > > > > up2date -u > > up2date -u kernel kernel-utils --force > > The network cards aren't working, so this won't work, as of yet. I am > considering putting the updates on a CD and updating that way. > That's a problem alright. Probably best to download the ES4 update 1 CD's, and do an upgrade installation. Alternatively install a working ethernet card if you have one. > > > > If you have the SMP kernel, use 'kernel-smp' in the list of updates to > > force. > > This is interesting. I did this install on a new machine, and told it to > install everything. It installed both kernel-2.6.9-5.EL and > kernel-2.6.9-5.EL-SMP. I deleted the SMP kernel, as there is only one > cpu. Don't know why the install did that. I've never seen it do that > before on any other machine. The most likely explanation for this is that you have a HyperThreading CPU. It appears as 2 CPU's when you use the smp kernel. Cheers, Michael -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list