Re: Gigabit card problems

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Not sure what that is? The original mail was generated by a web-based notes
> app. Here was my original post:
> Group,
>      I set up a Dell 1650 with a gb Broadcom card on it using the standard
> Redhat 7.2 cds. I then installed Lotus Domino as my intention was to use
> this as a mail server. The installation went smoothly until I put the
> server in production where the gb card started acting flakey, going up and
> down. Someone suggested that I would be better off installing the intel gb
> driver e1000-3.1.22-1.i386. So, I uninstalled the broadcom driver and
> bounced the server. Installed the intel driver and bounced the server. Now
> my issue begins... the eth0 card is not recognized in the bios when the
> server comes up. The bios shows the lo being claimed but not eth0 or eth1.
> I uninstalled the intel driver and placed the broadcom driver back on and
> the same thing is happenning where I don't see the card being claimed in
> the bios when the server is coming up. Am i missing something? How do I
> check what driver is being loaded to run that card? I've checked the
> configuration files and nothing has changed. Your help is greatly
> appreciated as this is a new environment for me.

What does lsmod show? If there's no module for the card and it's not 
compiled into the kernel, it won't be recognized as a device.

If lsmod doesn't show a module, try a wildcard module insertion 
	modprobe \*
and if that doesn't work, you have to find out what the correct module for 
the card is (and maybe the parameters too, though I doubt it) and do a 
manual insertion.