RedHat Linux 9.0 & ABIT IC7-MAX3 problem

[Burninator]

I just installed Redhat earlier tonight and I got the thing running and working but everytime i try to set up my network it messes up. I am using ABIT IC7-MAX3 mobo with a built in INTEL CSA Gigabit LAN chip and it doesnt recognize it, what do I need to do about this? Is there a way to make it recognize it. The only other intel options for network ethernet cards are EXPRESS(something) and i have tried each one and them with no sucess. I am writing now on my Windows partition. So if there is anywhere I can go for help on this matter or someone can help I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[drag]

I looked around a bit and figured out that you motherboard uses the 875P chipset. I then found a review for a Intel motherboard using that chipset that has gigabit lan; here

In it it said that they had to go to the newest pre-release kernel that is aviable to get the LAN to work, which was 2.4.21-pre7. The kernel that comes with redhat is 2.4.20.something.

Right now the current stable kernel is up to 2.4.23 so you may need to update your kernel in order to get the support for the new chipset stuff.

Now the standard way to do this is to download the kernel sources from www.kernel.org and compile a brand new custom kernel from scratch, but that's a pain to do for a newbie. Your welcome to try it, if you mess up you can still switch back to the old kernel if you want, but it may not be fun. You can get the newest kernel tar.gz sources from here

There are quite a few online resources on howto deal with compiling a kernel and what to do to get the bootloader to use it. A few searches on google will provide plenty of information. It's worth trying a couple times, IMO.

However if you just want to try out Linux with out all the hassle of learning to compile junk maybe try out one of the new releases from Mandrake. The newest version is 9.2 and uses kernel 2.4.22. Or maybe upgrade to a kernel from Fedora, which is the successor to Redhat's numbered versions.

You board just post-dates Redhat 9.0 that's all.

I am not 100% sure if the newer kernel will fix your problem, It's all based off of that review and educated guesses.

 

[Burninator]

well thank you so much for the info, and the time you took to research it. I am a newbie to linux so i dont think compiling a new kernel is something I want to get into but ill try. Thanks again for your info and if anybody else has any inteligent things to say plz feel free to help.