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Detecting an Ethernet card



On Monday 04 June 2007 15:15:53 jerry.feldman-GZ1d29J7KDAO4ta96kjR9g at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I have an Intel whitebox EM64T dual core system that contains an Intel
> Southbridge DPT LAN chip, but I have been having trouble detecting it
> with RHEL 4.0 Update 3. I have not been able to locate the proper driver
> for this chip yet. It should be a GB Ethernet chip, but I have not been
> able to configure any of the existing Intel drivers.

The e1000 driver typically gets updated every RHEL point-release to add 
support for newer and newer variants. I'm guessing you need a newer RHEL4 to 
pick up support. Test kernels for the in-development 4.6 release can be found 
here:

http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/RPMS.kernel/

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Jarod Wilson
jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org

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