Steven Stromer writes:
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 11So, 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/r8169I 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.
That kernel message, and absence of any other error messages, is fairly conclusive.
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!
Do you still have a route defined to your router?
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