On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Markus Neteler <markus.nete...@iasma.it> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 16:37, Connie Sieh <cs...@fnal.gov> wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Markus Neteler wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I hoped to find the NetXen driver in SL 5.5 but it does not seem to be in >>> Linux fep 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 16:39:28 EDT 2010 >> >> Why do you think it is not in 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5? > > Because the network card is not recognized (ifconfig does not show > it). A few minutes ago I found a driver (SRPM) on the HP site > which I compiled and installed. After restarting the network service > the network card (eth2 in my case) is shown. > > I would be glad to avoid own driver compilation, but I don't know > how to activate the network card without it. If this is RTFM, please > point me to the document.
I suggest you try asking ELRepo and see if the driver can be built as a kernel module: http://elrepo.org Please use either the mailing list or bug tracker there. Akemi
