On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 20:08, Denice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 16:37, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> The driver is there - and so should have worked with a 'modprobe
>> netxen_nic'.
>
> I will try that tomorrow.

Note that the advantage to using the vendor source is that the
firmware comes with it (and the vendor might even support it) ..  and
the obvious disadvantage is that you need to rebuild on every kernel update..

cheers, etc.

> This one I compiled and installed today:
>
> [root@fep ~]# lsmod | grep nx
> nx_nic                254444  0
> bnx2                  216653  0
> [root@fep ~]# modinfo nx_nic
> filename:
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.11.1.el5/extra/hp-nx_nic/driver/nx_nic.ko
> version:        4.0.526
> license:        GPL
> description:    HP Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Network Driver

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