Re: Problem in detecting the network cards on RH

[Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll@xxxxxxxxx>]

An HP 2600 workstation

On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Phebe_Mertes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> What is the actual hardware?
> I am aware of several firmware releases for HP Proliant DL380 G6  
> servers to
> get them to work with certain NIC cards.
>
>
>
> redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/02/2009 01:57:24 PM:
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> > Re: Problem in detecting the network cards on RH
> >
> > Margaret Doll
> >
> > to:
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> > 12/02/2009 01:58 PM
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> > I don't use the gui too often, but the gui sees no network device.
> >
> > We are trying to put two RH system together to work as a cluster, so
> > we are keeping the computers at the same version.  Also we have
> > some proprietary software on the systems so that they cannot be
> > put on a public network.  They do have to talk to one another.
> >
> >
> > On Dec 2, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS) wrote:
> >
> > > What does system-config-network tell you?
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-
> > > > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Margaret Doll
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 02:53
> > > > To: SysAdmins; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > > > Subject: Problem in detecting the network cards on RH
> > > >
> > > > We have a RedHat system running the  2.6.18-53.el5  operating  
> > > > system.
> > > >
> > > > The hardware on the system includes two ethernet cards:
> > > >
> > > >       Broadcom 5761 PCI express NIC
> > > >      Intel  Pro 1000 CT Gb PCI
> > > >
> > > > We have the drivers recommended for the cards installed; namely,  
> > > > tg3
> > > > and e1000.  I can see these drivers listed when I run lsmod.
> > > >
> > > > lspci  can see the two ethernet cards.
> > > >
> > > > However, hwbrowser and dmidecode do not see any ethernet devices.
> > > >
> > > > When we originally tried to put the system on the network, we saw  
> > > > an
> > > > sit connection.  We disabled sit by
> > > > adding "alias net-pf-10 off "  to /etc/modprobe.conf  to turn off
> > > > IPv6.  Truning off IPv6 in /etc/sysconfig/network did not do the
> > > > trick.
> > > >
> > > > We have /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
> > > > ifcfg-eth0 set up correctly.
> > > >
> > > > On a reboot and then using "ifconfig", we only see the lo network
> > > > connection.
> > > >
> > > > How do we connect to the ethernet cards?
> > > >
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