[Techtalk] Install not picking up NIC

[Hamster]

Matt,

Two things I'd like to say here.

First, you say the doc is based on RH6.2. Is this the actual version you are using?
If you are, can I suggest you use a more recent version. While a look on the RH website shows that they are still producing errata for version 6.2, using a version with a 2.4 kernel gives you access to niftier firewalling rules.

But thats not too important really.

As to getting your nic working, its not a matter of packages, but a matter of modules.
You need to load the driver for your nic.

The first thing you need to do is find out what nic you have in the machine, and then find the corresponding module that it needs.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/nicmodules.html
That page should help you find the module you need for your nic.
Alternatively, you could always throw on a newer distro and get it to autodetect your nic, and then see what module it chooses by looking in /etc/modules.conf

To load the module and get your nic working you need to do:
modprobe name_of_module
If it returns some error, then check the module is actually on your machine.
You can use the command lsmod (list modules) to see whats loaded and rmmod will remove any modules. insmod is another way of installing modules, but modprobe is a better method cause it checks for dependencies.


Now my question is, do you want your nic automatically loaded at bootup? If so there are a few extra steps you need to do. I dont know if I can talk you through them though, cause I only know how to do it for RH 7 and above, 6 might be different. But I am more than happy to have a go if you want. Let me know.

Hope this has been some help.

Hamster