Are RedHat 8.0 network card drivers generally compatible with RedHat 9?

9/23/2005 4:53:32 PM

You need to provide a lot more information before anyone can attempt to help you. For example:

- What network card are you using?
- Where are you getting the driver?
- Is it source code or binary?

That being said, Red Hat no longer supports 8.0 or 9. You would probably be much better off switching to a current distro.

9/24/2005 1:53:08 PM

It has two, they are Broadcom NetXtreme, not sure of the exact number on that at the moment as its in the office and I'm not. I am looking at the driver from the HP website, its an HP Proliant DL145. And they list the drivers through RedHat 8.0 (I would assume binary.) I only used RedHat 9.0 because my library has a nice book on how to set everything I need up. And the network cards work, but everyday, about the same time usually, the connection drops. And I've hooked the cable in to another PC and it worked fine, so I think it must be the Proliant. I figured the easiest thing to try was the drivers, but I don't know enough about RedHat to know if 8.0 will work on 9.0. My gut says no, but my book doesn't go that deep in to it.

9/25/2005 1:15:54 AM

What is the name of the driver? I know broadcoms typically can use the tg3 or the bcm5700 driver. The tg3 is newer and much better. If I had to guess, I would think it would be included in RH8, but i'm not positive. That being said, broadcom cards are crap essentially. If that's the only problem you are having, consider yourself lucky.

Red Hat even has a knowledge base article specifically on broadcom cards:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/dml_fetch.pl?CompanyID=842&ContentID=3225&FaqID=2834&word=broadcom&faq_template=http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/searchfaq.shtm&topic=45&back_refr=http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/&topicname=Networking&Id=&Instance=&Shared=

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9/25/2005 10:16:21 AM