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-<ifname> <- holds the config for
> the device (e.g. ip address, netmask, gateway, etc...)
>
> ifup <ifname>
>
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