Asus P4G800-E w Intel 82547EI Gigabit LAN not supported?

I have put together a system based on an Asus P4G800-E motherboard with
on-board Intel 82547EI Gigabit LAN controller. As my first foray into
LINUX I installed Red Hat 9. My problem is that it does not seem to
recognize this LAN controller. How does one go about making this work?
I have Windows installed on the second HD and thus have access to the
internet for downloading (and posting this.)
The coward's way out would seem to be go to ComputersRUs or similar and
buy a $20 LAN card that is recognized, but why would I want to do this
when I have perfectly good (even better) LAN already? (OK - it's a quick,
cheap, easy fix. What's another reason?)

Thanks for your help in advance.

The other cheap and easy fix was to install Mandrake 10 rather than Red
Hat 9. This recognized the on-board LAN properly. There was no issue in
doing this since I had installed nothing and had no data on Red Hat.

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:52:28 -0400, Gary Carroll
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have put together a system based on an Asus P4G800-E motherboard with
> on-board Intel 82547EI Gigabit LAN controller. As my first foray into
> LINUX I installed Red Hat 9. My problem is that it does not seem to
> recognize this LAN controller. How does one go about making this work?
> I have Windows installed on the second HD and thus have access to the
> internet for downloading (and posting this.)
> The coward's way out would seem to be go to ComputersRUs or similar and
> buy a $20 LAN card that is recognized, but why would I want to do this
> when I have perfectly good (even better) LAN already? (OK - it's a
> quick, cheap, easy fix. What's another reason?)
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.



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If your Linux can't detect NIC device, you'd better set modules of NIC
manually.
First, search the NIC driver. It's very easy. Maybe, you already got it .
Next, follow the install guide that is on your driver package. Usually, the
step is as below.
1> compile 2>edit /etc/modules.conf 3>modprove eth0 or [module name]. 4>
/etc/init.d/network restart

Dont worry! you didn't need to change RH into other Linux package. If you
can set NIC manually, you are going toward one more step.







"Gary Carroll" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> The other cheap and easy fix was to install Mandrake 10 rather than Red
> Hat 9. This recognized the on-board LAN properly. There was no issue in
> doing this since I had installed nothing and had no data on Red Hat.
>
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:52:28 -0400, Gary Carroll
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > I have put together a system based on an Asus P4G800-E motherboard with
> > on-board Intel 82547EI Gigabit LAN controller. As my first foray into
> > LINUX I installed Red Hat 9. My problem is that it does not seem to
> > recognize this LAN controller. How does one go about making this work?
> > I have Windows installed on the second HD and thus have access to the
> > internet for downloading (and posting this.)
> > The coward's way out would seem to be go to ComputersRUs or similar and
> > buy a $20 LAN card that is recognized, but why would I want to do this
> > when I have perfectly good (even better) LAN already? (OK - it's a
> > quick, cheap, easy fix. What's another reason?)
> >
> > Thanks for your help in advance.
>
>
>
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