Problem in detecting the network cards on RH

[George Magklaras]

lspci cannot resolve driver issues, it reads the device IDs on the bus 
and then reports what it finds.

As far as I can remember, Broadcom 5761 support was updated in RHEL 5.2 
and your kernel is older than that. Have a look here:

http://oss.oracle.com/el5/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-U2-en.html#Kernel_and_Driver_Updates

I think the earliest kernel you should be running is at least 
kernel-2.6.18-92.x

BTW, it is possible to compile from sources and have the drivers on your 
current kernel included, but if you can RHN update the machine, that 
would be better.

GM

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George Magklaras BSc Hons MPhil
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Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX-Linux Systems Administrator
EMBnet Technical Management Board
The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo,
University of Oslo
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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?
>