[lug] Ethernet Card Problems

[Shannon Johnston]

Hi Jen,
Running into almost the same configuration (I used a Penguin instead of a
Dell.)
I managed to get everything to work, including the Checkpoint software
when I loaded RH7.1 and then installed the 2.2.14 Kernel. I didn't remove
the 2.4 kernel. I just made a second boot option. I'm not sure of all the
inner workings of why this worked, most likely because of the different
hardware, but it may be worth a shot.

Shannon

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jenni wrote:

> Hey all. :)
> 
> I'm having a terrible time getting an Intel EtherExpress 10/100 card
> running on a Redhat 6.2 box.
> 
> Here's a little history.  This is going to be a firewall.  It's a dell
> dimension desktop, don't know the specs off the top of my head but if
> needed I'll send them along too.  I installed the cards before installing
> RedHat.  The cards were detected during install, but the install locked up
> at the end at the "Performing post-install configuration" screen.
> 
> I took the cards out and reinstalled RedHat.  Everything went fine.  I
> shut down and reinstalled one card and rebooted.  Kudzu found the card and
> tried to autoconfigure it.  Same problem.  Whole machine locked up.
> 
> I booted again, skipped kudzu, and manually configured the card.  When I
> tried to bring up the network the machine locked up yet again.
> /var/log/messages only shows an attempt to load the eepro100 module, no
> other errors.
> 
> >From all the documentation I've seen these ethernet cards should work with
> RedHat 6.2, I'm going to be running Checkpoint Firewall-1 on this machine
> and it doesn't yet work with the new 2.4 kernel, so upgrading the kernel
> won't help me.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Jen
> 
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