Re: Incorpating new ethernet driver into Redhat configuration (GBit 3c2000 chip on Asustek motherboard)

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 10/21/03 

Date: 21 Oct 2003 19:40:49 GMT

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:17:13 +0100, David Chambers staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> After loading RH8 successful and easily onto a new Asustek P4 system,
> it did not detect the new Gigabit LAN chip. I downloaded the driver
> from Asustek, followed the instructions and installed using insmod
> This initialises the hardware, turns lights on and I can ping a machine.
> However, it doesn't allow web browsing, DNS etc.

Did you assign an IP address to the machine with ifconfig or dhcpcd?
Did you set up the default route correctly, if you gave the machine a
static IP? Did you set up /etc/resolv.conf correctly, if you used a
static IP? If ping works, the card is working and you'll be set once
the other configuration bits are in place.

> It also doesn't reload after reboot.

Add the line
   modprobe FOO
to /etc/rc.d/rc.local , or edit /etc/modules.conf and add the line
   alias eth0 FOO
...replacing FOO with the name of the right module to load.

> I'd also very much like to use the Redhat configuration GUI to setup
> the networking options.

False economy. Distro-specific GUIs for setting junk up are useful for
new users, but they're limited, and it's typically faster+easier to set
this stuff up manually.

> Is there any way to add this new driver to the drop downlist of
> choices for eth0 device, and/or then use the rest of the network
> config options screens to set everything else up.

Find where the config tool keeps its list of Ethernet modules, then
insert the new module into the list? Can't help you with the location
of this, since I don't use or recommend Redhat. grep might help. 

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