Installation Red Hat AS 4 NC7170/e1000

[CONSTANT]

hi,

I have to install a NC7170 on a Red hat AS 4 box, the *.txt is not very clear about this.
Somewhere it is said that I don't need Kernel source code....
all I need is to do:
rpmbuild -bbb e1000xxxxx.spec ???
then install the binary package ???
then /etc/modules.conf ???

[Ivan Ferreira]

The kernel source is usually not needed now. Most headers are installed to you can compile modules without the entire kernel source.

[CONSTANT]

OK thanks

Could you confirm the procedure ?

rpm -bb SPECS/e1000xxxx.spec
rpm -ivh RPMS/i386/e1000xxxx.i386.rpm
vi /etc/modules.conf
reboot

Thanks again

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

1. Download HP ProLiant NC71xx Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver for Linux.

2. Download kernel source RPM for RedHat AS 4.

3. Build rpm:
rpm -ivh kernel-source-.src.rpm
rpm -ivh e1000*.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/linux-
make mrproper
make -e KERNELRELEASE='uname -r' oldconfig
make -e KERNELRELEASE='uname -r' dep
make depend
cd /usr/src/redhat/
rpm -bb SPECS/e1000.spec

4. Install the rpm from /usr/src/redhat for the driver:
rpm -ivh --force RPMS/i386/e1000-.i386.rpm

5. Add new line to /etc/modules.conf
alias ethX e1000


Regards,
Sergey

[CONSTANT]

OK thanks the driver already in Red Hat 4
so no need to compile
Thanks again