On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 14:46, Jos Vos wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:18:20PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: > > HP provides drivers for the e1000 on their linux driver pages. However, > > they only have RHEL 3.0/2.1 and RHL up to 8.0 in their support matrix. > > You might be able to get it working with the e1000 driver for 8.0 or > > RHEL 3.0. > > The issue is that you need a driver compiled with the exact BOOT > kernel of RHL 9, AFAIK, so I assumed this won't work. HP's drivers come in src.rpm as well, so they can be recompiled on non-supported errata. Sorry I didn't mention it; I figured you'd at least try and look. ;-) > I've now solved it by adding some legacy network card for install only > (after installing - with updates merged - it will recognize the newer > Intel cards anyway). But a driver disk howto would be useful anyway, > also for Fedora ;). Good. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
