eth0 nw interface problem

[Rick Stevens]

digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:30, Navin SONI wrote:
> 
>>hello all,
>>
>>i recently installed RH9.0 on my new HP-Proliant DL145G2 Server.
>>
>>But the system eth0 interface is not coming up.if i do 
>>
>>ifconfig -a command,only lo0 interface comes up.
>>
>>i tried doing ifconfig eth0 up also,but it says no such device.
>>
>>the network card is "Broadcom Netxtreme ethernet BCM5721"
>>
>>
>>Any help in this regard would be apprecible.
>>
>>thanks
>>navin.
>>
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>>mostly redhat 9.0 wont have a driver for ur card try using RHEL-3 or Fedora core 2,3,4

Nope.  Broadcom doesn't provide open source drivers for their wireless
cards.  You need to get ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net)
which uses the Windows XP driver.  Once you've built ndiswrapper, you
go find the XP driver's .inf and .sys files on the Windows CD, put them
in a directory under Linux and tell ndiswrapper about them.  ndiswrapper
then uses the XP drivers to drive your card.
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