How to install Intel Corp.|82547GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller

[Abd El-Hameed Mohammed (Use-trade.com)]

I am very sorry for bothering you & anyone by HTML posting & thread
hijacking.
Thank you very much for your comments & links, I am going to study it.

Hameed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Schaffner" <P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: How to install Intel Corp.|82547GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller


> Hameed,
>
> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 13:26 +0300, Abd El-Hameed Mohammed (Use-trade.
> com) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I need to support "Intel Corp.|82547GI Gigabit Ethernet
> > Controller" on a Fedora 1
> > During the setup, it does not detect it automatically. are there any
> > guide to how to install a driver for "Intel Corp.|82547GI Gigabit
> > Ethernet Controller"  on Fedora core 1?
>
> First a small lecture on posting... :-)
>
> 1. Don't send HTML mail - many people seem to have problems with it and
> may ignore your message.
>
> 2. Don't reply to an existing post and change the subject. This is
> called "thread hijacking" and messes up threaded mail readers (check the
> full headers and you will find references to the previous subject) and
> decreases the chances of your getting help.  Instead start a new thread
> by sending a new message.  (As you hijacked your own thread, this may be
> a bit confusing.   Guess you must have gotten past the problem with
> iso3.)
>
> 3. May want to read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> Now - to your current problem.  A google on "82547GI linux" shows lots
> of potentially useful links, but my guess (based on "Notes and
> Observations" in http://www.linuxtested.com/results/asus_psch-lr.html)
> is that you need the e1000 module loaded.  Try putting the line
>
> alias ethX e1000
>
> where X = 0 if you have no other NICs, or more likely X = N+1 where N is
> the highest existing eth device (try ifconfig to see what you have
> active if in doubt, eth1 if you have eth0) to /etc/modprobe.conf (or was
> that still /etc/modules.conf in FC1?).
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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