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*SOLVED* Network Card Support [message #6897]

Wed, 27 September 2006 04:10

galactic77
Messages: 6
Registered: September 2006

Junior Member

I have noticed on my test machine (at home), it has an odd network card in it and I have found that the openvz kernel does not have the network card driver for it compiled into it due to errors when I boot it. I just recently bought a dedicated server and have a few questions.

I ran the command lspci to find which network card the dedicated server has:
01:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

Is this driver compiled into the kernel already? I dont want to set the openvz kernel to boot permanently as this kernel fearing that I will not have ssh access to the server. Then I have to have a technician come out and fix it, which costs $$.

Any help is appreciated, thank you!
-Daniel

[Updated on: Fri, 29 September 2006 06:32] by Moderator

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Re: Network Card Support [message #6899 is a reply to message #6897]

Wed, 27 September 2006 06:09

Vasily Tarasov
Messages: 1345
Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

This driver is compiled as a module in OpenVZ kernel.
So this module should be loaded on Linux start for example by adding appropriate alias in modprobe.conf.
Look also at thread http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=tree&th=1074&mid =6030&&rev=&reveal=

HTH,
vass.

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Re: Network Card Support [message #6900 is a reply to message #6897]

Wed, 27 September 2006 06:10

HaroldB
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Registered: June 2006

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8139 is the most common and most well supported NIC for Linux that I have seen. All of the openvz kernels support it. Safe to reboot!

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Re: Network Card Support [message #6904 is a reply to message #6897]

Wed, 27 September 2006 08:03

galactic77
Messages: 6
Registered: September 2006

Junior Member

Thanks for the help guys.

I changed the default value in the grub.conf file to boot to the openvz kernel and it worked great. No boot up problems at all. I really appreciate your help.

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Re: *SOLVED* Network Card Support [message #7004 is a reply to message #6897]

Fri, 29 September 2006 17:26

galactic77
Messages: 6
Registered: September 2006

Junior Member

Alright, I just recieved another dedicated server and wonder if the network card module is compiled into the kernel.

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)

Thanks!

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Re: *SOLVED* Network Card Support [message #7022 is a reply to message #7004]

Sat, 30 September 2006 21:21

Vasily Tarasov
Messages: 1345
Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

This driver is also compiled as a module in OpenVZ rpms.
BTW, you can easily find out it using kernel config files from download section. For example, in
http://download.openvz.org/kernel/stable/022stab078.21/confi gs/kernel-2.6.8-022stab078-i686-enterprise.config.ovz, we can see CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m.

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