How to setup network card ?

[dinduboy14]

hei gurus,

i am very new to linux. i have just installed red hat linux AS2.1 but after the installation, it did not detect the network card or so i think. it is mentioned that the network driver is in /dev/eth but when i go to /dev directory..i can find the eth file.

btw, i am using Dell Power Edge 2650 as the server.

When i try to manually add a ip address and click OK..i get the following error message;

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 1210, in ?
gtk.mainloop()
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2608, in mainloop
_gtk.gtk_main()
File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/libglade.py", line 28, in __call__
ret = apply(self.func, a)
File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 392, in on_applyButton_clicked
self.save()
File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 271, in save
self.saveHardware()
File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 283, in saveHardware
hardwarelist.save()
File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHardwareList.py", line 276, in save
modules.write()
File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 981, in write
self[key] = self.vars[key]
File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 933, in __setitem__
findexp = '[\t ]*' + key + '[\t ]+' + varname + '[\t ]+'
TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation

Local variables in innermost frame:
missing: 1
key: options
place: 0
value: {'options': {}}
self: <netconfpkg.NCHardwareList.MyConfModules instance at 845e2b0>
varname: None


THis all seems greek to me. KINDLY advice on what could be the problem??...or where i can get network driver for the DELL server.

Thanks and regards,
Dinesh Paul

 

[jaymzter]

first thing, eth0 (for example) exists in kernel space, you will not find a /dev/eth0. have you tried to run 'kudzu'? it's RH's hardware detection tool and it may help. If not, what you can do is 'lspci' or 'cat /proc/pci' which should tell you if your ethernet card is seen at all. If it is, try 'modprobe -t net', which will load all ethernet kernel modules until the right one is found (if it exists). If netconfig isn't working after that you might have to configure the files by hand from there. However AS 2.1 does have a support option, have you considered it??