On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Markus Neteler
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 16:37, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> 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