topic Re: RH NIC kernel driver question in Operating System - Linux

RH NIC kernel driver question

edgar_19 — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 07:52:54 GMT

i have Red hat advanced server on HP Proliant ML350 G3,but it does not have suport for NIC driver,and why i must to install Kernel souce???
So i need to put 4 server on my network today and now i need suport of howto install that driver in this version of red hat advanced server 2.1

Re: RH NIC kernel driver question

Ragu_1 — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:53:36 GMT

Please be patient with this help forum! What is the NIC that your server has ? If you have finished installing the system, what does `lspci -v' say as root ? You have to give us some input to work on, please help us help you.

Re: RH NIC kernel driver question

Kodjo Agbenu — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 14:23:14 GMT

Hi,

Recent HP Proliant servers usually ship with Broadcom Tigon 3 gigabit ethernet NICs.

Therefore, there is a driver in the standard Linux kernel that can be used : tg3.o

In /etc/modules.conf :

alias eth0 tg3
alias eth1 tg3

However, HP provides its own driver which is named "bcm5700.o". This could be confusing with the "bcm5700.o" included in the standard kernel : only the HP version works with this card. See hp.com/linux for more details.

In summary : use either tg3 included in standard Linux kernel, or bcm5700 shipped by HP.

Good luck.

Kodjo

Re: RH NIC kernel driver question

K.C. Chan — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:51:08 GMT

this may help, check out this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=274277

FYI, you need the kernel source, becuase you need to compile the driver with it.