Problem in detecting the network cards on RH

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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
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> Margaret Doll
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> I don't use the gui too often, but the gui sees no network device.
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> 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.
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> On Dec 2, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS) wrote:
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> > What does system-config-network tell you?
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> >> Subject: Problem in detecting the network cards on RH
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> >> 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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