I am very sorry for bothering you & anyone by HTML posting & thread hijacking. Thank you very much for your comments & links, I am going to study it. Hameed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Schaffner" <P.R.Schaffner@xxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:32 PM Subject: Re: How to install Intel Corp.|82547GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller > Hameed, > > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 13:26 +0300, Abd El-Hameed Mohammed (Use-trade. > com) wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to support "Intel Corp.|82547GI Gigabit Ethernet > > Controller" on a Fedora 1 > > During the setup, it does not detect it automatically. are there any > > guide to how to install a driver for "Intel Corp.|82547GI Gigabit > > Ethernet Controller" on Fedora core 1? > > First a small lecture on posting... :-) > > 1. Don't send HTML mail - many people seem to have problems with it and > may ignore your message. > > 2. Don't reply to an existing post and change the subject. This is > called "thread hijacking" and messes up threaded mail readers (check the > full headers and you will find references to the previous subject) and > decreases the chances of your getting help. Instead start a new thread > by sending a new message. (As you hijacked your own thread, this may be > a bit confusing. Guess you must have gotten past the problem with > iso3.) > > 3. May want to read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > Now - to your current problem. A google on "82547GI linux" shows lots > of potentially useful links, but my guess (based on "Notes and > Observations" in http://www.linuxtested.com/results/asus_psch-lr.html) > is that you need the e1000 module loaded. Try putting the line > > alias ethX e1000 > > where X = 0 if you have no other NICs, or more likely X = N+1 where N is > the highest existing eth device (try ifconfig to see what you have > active if in doubt, eth1 if you have eth0) to /etc/modprobe.conf (or was > that still /etc/modules.conf in FC1?). > > Phil > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
