Installing Intel Network Card on RedHat Linux 9

[Nick]

Search the hardware supported by Linux this link will help u

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html

and add the appropriate entry in /etc/modules.conf 

for ur card it should be...

alias  eth0 e100 

if there is a problem related to modules u can use modprobe command.


On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:46:17 +0800, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Shiraz Baig wrote:
> > I have still not been able to install Intel Network
> > Card. The name of the card is:
> >    "Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection"
> > This is the name that is shown in the MS Windows and
> > it is working prefectly over there.
> >
> > I tried to use eepro.o and eepro100.o modules in
> > Linux. But it gives a number of errors. The first one
> > being init_module, device not found.
> >
> > It is using IRQ 20. In the Linux there are only 15
> > IRQs. So, that also puts me at a loss to understand
> > how will Linux use IRQ 20. Of course, if Linux had
> > picked it up itself, it would allocate some different
> > IRQ.
> >
> > It is installed in computer Rafflesystems, who claim
> > it to be branded system. I am not sure, if it is.
> >
> > So, please advice is requested,
> >   1) How to install this network card?
> >   2) What IRQ to use or at least how to manage the
> >      IRQ?
> 
> http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-006103.htm
> 
> seems to indicate that the e100 is the driver you need...not eepro100
> 
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Nick