Problem in detecting the network cards on RH

[Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS)]

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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