[ltp] Install Redhat Linux Enterprise 3.0.8 on T60 - network card does not w
Joshua Megerman
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:42:49 -0400
On Monday 26 March 2007 22:21, Debbie Zhang wrote:
> Hi, Josh,
>
> I did go out to buy an "older" model network card so it can be recognized
> by RHEL 3.
> The one I picked is "NetGear CardBus Notebook Adapter 10/100 Mbps FA511".
> Cannot even load the tulip.o.
> Guess I picked the one that is too old.
>
> Have you tried to use another network driver also ?
> Which model did you use?
>
In our case, we had e1000 fiber cards that were in use from the original
gigabit infrastructure, but the boxes had built-in tg3 copper NICs that we
now have the infrastructure to support, so we just switched to using them. I
haven't used a Netgear 10/100 NIC in forever :)
> I also tried to install Fedora Core 6.
> And that works out of box. It recognize T60 duel core as two CPU and pings
> well.
>
Further proof that Fedora != RHEL...
> thanks for the help
You're welcome!
Josh
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