cool. Thanks guys for your help... Seeing as I'm retarded and all, I went to fry's, picked up a $20 d-link card, and now appear to be rockin' like Dokken. Problem solved! Centos seems pretty nice so far... -- jon Kevin Brown wrote: > > I'm totally retarded and can't seem to get my fancy new server box to > >> the network. >> >> The nic card, an Intel e1000-type, won't load... and the page at Intel >> doesn't seem to help. The driver itself is present on the system, but >> when I try to insmod it can't find the file. >> >> modprobe e1000 doens't throw any errors... but it's not obvious what >> do do with the network from there. >> >> Any tips for working through this? > > > modprobe e1000 > lsmod - lists the loaded modules > dmesg - useful system information messages (such as devices being found) > ifconfig - see if the interface has come awake after the module is > loaded (usually with the -a flag). > > after that, you need to configure it and bring it up > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg- <- holds the config for > the device (e.g. ip address, netmask, gateway, etc...) > > ifup > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > . > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss