Network Driver not work on Redhat Enterprise

[avizen9]

HI, i installed Redhat-Enterprise 3 on HP Compaq DC 7600C Convertible, but it coudnt detect network driver, its having onborad network card, can somebody help me.
I tried broadcom,tg,intel driver but its not working.

[Jun Yu]

hi,

According to the support matrix of HP, your system has been tested and certified by RHEL4.
Here's the following link for details
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/clients/clientscert-redhat.html

If you still want to install RHEL3, you may be check which model of your NIC and to find the corresponding driver and compile from source.

[Stephen P. Schaefer]

I've had success in the past backporting ethernet drivers from one version of Red Hat to an earlier one, so it's not impossible, but you need to be comfortable reading and doing light editing of C code and with compiling kernels and kernel modules, then building the initrd images. Some of the details are described here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/ch-custom-kernel.html You could probably find a consultant to do the job, or Red Hat might do it for you - I've no idea what they'd charge, but it's going to involve at least four digits. In my case, the work was worth it because my environment has a severe requirement for consistent environments even when the hardware vendors stop selling the model we used to buy, and we buy many copies of a particular machine.

If you must use RHEL3 and you dread taking on the work described above, you might be able to buy a specific known-to-be-supported etherenet card and put it in a PCI or PCIe slot.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

did you installed the latest RHEL3 update level (update 7)?

[Alan_152]

The HP site lists 3 different cards for this machine, and now mention of linux. The cards I show are the Broadcom Extreme and the Intel Pro/1000 GT. Both of those drivers are native to RHEL3.

Of cource, the 3rd card is a belkin wireless, which may be a bit troublesome under RHEL in general.

I would recommend testing with an Ubuntu live CD to make sure that all is OK with the hardware 1st.

[avizen9]

well if somebody having some link for this driver can send, also somebody suggest me to compile of C, i m not good in C,