Problem in detecting the network cards on RH

[Margaret Doll]

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?
>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 02:53
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>> 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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