Re: ? four port NIC - Unknown if this is configured?

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware, in article
<1187992099.829610.170980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mai wurd wrote:

NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.

We have a new server (Fedora Core 5) with a four port Intel NIC card.

1. FC5 is obsolete. FC7 came out 3 months ago, and work is proceeding
on FC8. This really isn't a commercial distribution I would consider
for on-line service. See www.distrowatch.com, and look at GPL versions
of an Enterprise Linux, such as CentOS, or similar.

2. WHICH four port Intel NIC? Model numbers help a lot.

The CD that came with the card has a driver for the e1000 gb card.
Below is the list from the "locate e1000" command.

The e1000 has been supported for several years.

I don't know if this means that the driver is configured correctly or
not?

No

Our network engineer is not a Linux user so I am helping as I can with
this deployment. We have Web Hosting on this server and several
clients need a private ips for their eCommerce sites.

Hope this isn't actually connected to the Internet.

[root@ns2 ~]# locate e1000
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko

uname -a will show what kernel is installed. 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp is
the 'out-of-box' kernel, which means this system is unmaintained.

/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2320.fc5-i686/e1000-6.2.19b-1.src.rpm
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2320.fc5-i686/e1000-6.2.19b-1.src.txt

Someone installed the _source_ rpm for an update kernel. However,
this is just the source, and not the actual binary. You've got the
wrong breed of rpm (you wanted .6.20-1.2320.fc5-i686.rpm or similar
for a working kernel).

1. What does 'lsmod' show relating to the string "e1000"
2. What shows up in /var/log/messages relating to 'eth' and/or 'e1000'?
PLEASE DON'T POST THE ENTIRE FILE
3. What does /sbin/ifconfig -a show? The controlling files are
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*

Old guy
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