Problem in detecting the network cards on RH

[Margaret Doll]

An HP 2600 workstation

On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Phebe_Mertes at aotx.uscourts.gov 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 at redhat.com wrote on 12/02/2009 01:57:24 PM:
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>> Re: Problem in detecting the network cards on RH
>>
>> Margaret Doll
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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 at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
>>>> bounces at redhat.com] 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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