Dell server - no NIC's !

Hi Folks,

Trying to install RedHat 8.0 on a Dell poweredge 750 server. THe
installer doesn't see the two Gigabit cards, and when I get the system
installed I can't manually set them up.

They are both listed in /proc/pci. Am I right to think that the kernel
doesn't support them ? maybe I should try the RH9 disks....

Cheers,

Craig

On 2004-10-19, craig <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Trying to install RedHat 8.0 on a Dell poweredge 750 server. THe
> installer doesn't see the two Gigabit cards

Yes, you need to compile the driver since is not a standard gigabit.
Get the driver from dell's website.
Davide

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Davide Bianchi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed) n.net>...
> On 2004-10-19, craig <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > Trying to install RedHat 8.0 on a Dell poweredge 750 server. THe
> > installer doesn't see the two Gigabit cards
>
> Yes, you need to compile the driver since is not a standard gigabit.
> Get the driver from dell's website.
> Davide


Thanks ! I got them from Intel - Dell are only carrying RPMS (doh!)
for enterprise Linux now ; not even anything for RH9. Anyway, Intel
have a very nice tarball which worked a breeze.

Thanks for the advice,

Craig

On 2004-10-20, craig <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Thanks ! I got them from Intel - Dell are only carrying RPMS (doh!)

? so ? you can get the sources out of the rpms if you really want to.
rpm2tgz does it.

Davide

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