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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: discovery on September 22, 2008, 08:44:34 AM

Title: Need to update a network driver
Post by: discovery on September 22, 2008, 08:44:34 AM: Hello to all!!!

I have an ECS C7VCM2 board and it has a Realtek 10/100/1000 chip on it.

When my SME server is booting up and it gets to the bringing up eth0 it says FAILED very quickly and then says OK

I have no network connection to my server it will not ping nor access to the sever manager etc.

I have visited the Realtek website and downloaded a BSD Linux driver for the NIC.

I have it on a USB flash disk how do I access this in Centos thru the command line?

How do I update the driver? Sorry I am a newbie!!!!!!!!

Any Help would be fantastic!!!!

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Discovery aka Rob
Title: Re: Need to update a network driver
Post by: cactus on September 22, 2008, 09:43:07 AM: Quote from: discovery on September 22, 2008, 08:44:34 AM
I have an ECS C7VCM2 board and it has a Realtek 10/100/1000 chip on it.

When my SME server is booting up and it gets to the bringing up eth0 it says FAILED very quickly and then says OK
AFAIK this is proper behavior, can not find the reference but I have seen this myself as well.

Quote from: discovery on September 22, 2008, 08:44:34 AM
I have no network connection to my server it will not ping nor access to the sever manager etc.

I have visited the Realtek website and downloaded a BSD Linux driver for the NIC.
As stated many times before SME Server is based in CentOS, which is based on RedHaet Enterprise Linux, which is not at all like BSD so that driver won't help you.
Compiling a driver is not the easiest task and you need to recompile with every new kernel, so I suggest to buy a supportd NIC as this is the easiest way to go (and considering the workload also the cheapest).
Title: Re: Need to update a network driver
Post by: Trashman on September 22, 2008, 01:12:05 PM: Quote from: discovery on September 22, 2008, 08:44:34 AM
I have an ECS C7VCM2 board and it has a Realtek 10/100/1000 chip on it.
When my SME server is booting up and it gets to the bringing up eth0 it says FAILED very quickly and then says OK

I just wanted to confirm that my sme server also does that and my card is working right, check cables and connections, maybe the card is actually detected but you have a cable problem...
Title: Re: Need to update a network driver - SOLVED
Post by: discovery on September 29, 2008, 08:08:30 AM: Hello to All!!

After some digging around I have found that several other SME user have had the same problem.

Please follow this How To and it will do the job perfectly!!!

http://wiki.contribs.org/JetwayMiniITX

So now I have blown away Windows XP Embedded of My Lacie Ethernet 2TB NAS and replaced it with a modified SME 7.3 server.

All is working nicely

Thank you to all who replied and to this magnificent how to

Cheers

Discovery!!!!

Power to the SME Server !!!!!
Title: Re: Need to update a network driver - SOLVED
Post by: Jáder on September 29, 2008, 10:33:05 PM: Quote from: discovery on September 29, 2008, 08:08:30 AM
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Please follow this How To and it will do the job perfectly!!!
http://wiki.contribs.org/JetwayMiniITX

So do you generated a new kernel to SME ?
For what processor do you generated it ? I´m trying to do for MiniITX Ezra (933Mhz i586 cpu... not SME8 compatible) and failing.

Do you mind to share your compiled kernel ? Thanks

Jáder