On Saturday 02 September 2006 19:58, Steven Stromer wrote: > >> Your only responsibility is to verify that your new card is actually > >> supported under Linux, and specifically by the Fedora kernel. > >> > >> As long as the new card's drivers are in the Fedora kernel, you're all > >> set. > > > > This will get the NIC working 9 times out of 10 all right. > > Call me the 1 out of 10 guy. I removed the eth0 alias in modprobe.conf, > shut down the first machine, replaced the NIC and rebooted. > > dmesg shows: > eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'. > eth0:RTL8169 at 0xe88e8000, 00:40:f4:ee:2f:ff, IRQ 11 > > So, I understand the TrendNet TEG-PCITXR Ggigabit PCI card that I've > installed has a RealTek 8169 chipset. > > modprobe.conf has a new line: > alias eth0 r8169 > > This all looks good. Further, the following directories exist: > /sys/module/r8169 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/r8169 > > I don't know this for fact, but I'd think this all indicates that the > chipset is recognized by the kernel (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5). I am not > certain of how to better confirm this. > > Yet, no network connection. So, I edit > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and update the hardware > address, which is still listed as the old card's address, and then > restart the network. > > I can locally ping the card on both its static public address and its > loopback, but cannot reach anything else. > > Any ideas? Thanks for all the responses, so far! > Steven, I don't know whether this has any relevance or not, but I recently changed a NIC in a FC4 box, and initially had a problem. It seems that it had detected the card correctly, and was loading the driver, but it had remembered the MAC address of the old card. I had to remove the card's entry in system-config-network, then run kudzu to get the new card read in again. Since then I have had no problem. Anne
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