Problem in detecting the network cards on RH

Wed Dec 2 19:36:29 UTC 2009

2.6.18-53.el5 is a older kernel.
Maybe you should update your system.
I have running 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 kernel with Rhel5 Update 4.

Thomas

On 02.12.2009, at 19:52, Margaret Doll wrote:

> 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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