computer computer wrote:
>
> hi
>
> how do you know that nework card is detecting by redhat7?. After i had
> installed my Sohware fasr ethernet network card and configure it and
> rebooting the computer, i saw the word eth0. however when i used the
> command arp -r and rarp commands to see the mac of the card, somtimes
> i get nothing and sometimes in the place of the mac of the card the question
> marks appears. i looked in /proc/irq i did not find anything shows that
> my card is there?.
>
Try pinging the IP address you assigned to the card.
> also, is there anyway to force the os to detect any hardware i mean manually?
> thanks
Kudzu. I don't know if it comes with Redhat 7, but Mandrake 7.1 uses it
to auto-detect new hardware. It worked perfectly for me the one time I
used it to detect a second network card. It may be set to run everytime
your system starts - Mandrake defaults to this, but I disable it.
And for a more manual installation of the NIC
Create an alias in /etc/conf.modules for ethX so that the system loads
the drivers when it loades module ethX
(in my case, 'alias eth1 ne2k-pci')
Create a ifcfg-ethX file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. This file
just lists a few parameters for the card, such as IP address and
netmask.
Now you can activate the interface with ifup/ifdown, and if you set
ONBOOT=Yes in ifcfg-ethX, it will start automatically when the system
runs.
- Doug
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