On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 04:27, Ross Macintyre wrote: > I'm having problems with a server I have just upgraded from 8.0 to > Fedora Core2. > The networking stopped working though everything still looks ok. How did you get your gigabit ethernet working in RHL 8.0 originally? I had to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel or use a separate driver--which did you do? > The machine in question has a dual P4 Xeon (S2721) motherboard > which has 1 dual Gigabit ethernet and 1 single 100 Mg port. > Before I upgraded I had my ethernet connected to one of the Gigabit > ports. Since the upgrade all I can seem to do to get things working > is connect to the 100 Mg port and configure that as eth0. > This is ok for now but I want to get the Gigabit connection working > soon. > (Also, I at first tried to configure it as eth2, which is what I > thought it should be, but that just confused things, and really that > is another story! It seemed to want to slower port, when it was > connected, eth0) > > I have an identical machine running 8.0 still so I can compare > things. Here is the output of lsci: > > <698-54>brahma# lspci|grep ther > 01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro > 100] (rev 10) > 07:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet > Controller (rev 01) > 07:01.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet > Controller (rev 01) It looks like eth0 is the Intel EEPRO/100 and eth1/eth2 is the dual Intel Gigabit. Do you have 'alias eth1 e1000' in /etc/modprobe.conf? If not, setup your card in the Network configuration GUI. Forrest
