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Hi,

I am a newbie to linux and to this forum too..

Need help in installing linux drivers. I have dell optiplex 755 with the Intel(R) 82566DM-2 gigabit ethernet connection, i have downloaded the drivers for same and now want the steps how to make it to work in RHEL WS 3.0

Thanks to all for assisting me.

Praveen.

The driver is inbuilt into kernel. Just type ifconfig to see if you can see eth0. Else type

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Hi Vivek,

Thanks a ton for your only reply.

I did what you wrote.

I tried manually loading the e1000 module with modprobe and it didn't complain, but I still have no eth0. When I used the "system-config-network" GUI, I added manually specified the an "Intel EtherExpress/1000 gigabit" device, but when I tried to Activate it I got the message: "e1000 device does not seem to be present, delaying initialization"

however i downloaded the linux drivers for the same NIC and i have to install and make it work. this is what i think. sorry if i am wrong.

Vivek...could you please help in installing the drivers, step by step.

Thanks soo much

Praveen Jaya.P

Can you provide me your driver download link?

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Sure Vivek,

Download Link : http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000

Please do the needful.

PraveenJaya.P

Download driver

Untar driver

Make sure gcc and development tools are installed

Read readme.txt or INSTALL file for installation instructions. This file is located inside tar ball directory.

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Hi Vivek

Thanks Dear,

Its working now and am able to ssh and FTP , Great Help.

Talk to you soon

I have dell optiplex 755 with the Intel(R) 82566DM gigabit ethernet connection, i have cds RHEL WS 4.0 (from 2005) (kernel version is 2.6.9-5.ELsmp)

I am not able to configure.

when i use lspci - it does not show the driver .

can you help me ?

Hello, maybe this helps someone having the same problem.

I installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (base release) and had the same problem (internal interface not discovered).

I decided to download and install OEL 5 Update 2 (kernel 2.6.18-92) and did a fresh install again. This time the interface was correctly discovered and configured, also de video card.