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Hardware Troubleshooting in Linux => Other Devices => Topic started by: behpaz on December 29, 2008, 02:50:04 PM
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Hi Dear Friends
i have a promblem and i dont know how to install new lan card in linux redhat 9 kernel 2.4.20-8
i have 4 network card nomer of 2 intel 82541PI and 2 intel 82551QM 10/100/1000Mb
when i install linux the os recognized the 82541PI as a fast ethernet but dont recognized giga ethernet and i dont see any item too add new hardware, i see meny meny of lan card in preinsatll lan card in driver list but my lan card there is not. i have Driver of lan e1000-7.6.5.tar.
can you help me to install my lan card?
Meny Thanks
Behzad
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Mostly drivers comes with installation instruction, I advice you to decompress e1000-7.6.5.tar and look for file install or readme or similar for installation instruction of this specific driver.
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# Unpack the file in tmp
cd /tmp
bunzip2 e1000-7.6.5-i386-bin-1a.tar.bz2
tar xf e1000-7.6.5-i386-bin-1a.tar
cd e1000-7.6.5-i386-bin-1a
# This does a dry run and will tell you what it will do.
./install.sh -n
# This runs it as root and will do the installations.
sudo ./install.sh
# Load the new driver and restart networking
modprobe e1000
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
This command will add e1000 explicitly in your /etc/modules file in order to get the updated e1000 driver to load at boot. You only need to run this for the first installation. If you install the 2.6.20-16 version later, then you should omit this in the second installation.
Code:
echo "e1000" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
That's it. You are done for the 2.6.22-X-generic kernel.
Install the second file e1000-7.6.5-i386-bin-1b.tar.bz2 in the same way after you have installed the 2.6.20-16 upgrade (which you will get automatically soon after your network is running).
please let me know of it works of post me the errors on website
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