HP XE3 Linux Driver for Accton Network Card

[Joe Thomas_1]

Hello, I am new to linux and I got everything running ok except my network card.

Does anyone know if there are any drivers or support for the Accton PCI network adapter for the HP XE3?

any help appreciated! Thanks

Joe

[Joe Thomas_1]

Oh sorry I forgot to mention, I am using Red Hat 7.2

[jim feldman · Accepted solution]

which model pci adapter? Did you check in http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=hcl

If you look on the card itself, there will probably be a thin postage stamp sized chip, that will have some printing on it. This may tell you which chipset it uses, and then you can figure out from there which driver. There are only about half a dozen chips in common use by most of the NIC makers.

When you bring the system up, bring up a terminal window and type the following commands.
cd /proc
more pci

This will list out all you pci devices and should tell you what the card thinks it is.

[Joe Thomas_1]

The card is an Accton EN2242 miniPCI Fast Ethernet (at least thats what win2000 reports it as)

when I do that command I get this for the ethernet

Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
Ehternet Controller: PCI device 113:1216 (accton Technology Corporation) (Rev 17).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0x1c00 [0x1cff].
Non-Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe80003ff].


does this help?