CentOS - Feb 2006 - network trouble with asus P5LD2-VM board

I am trying to install centos 4.2 on an Asus P5LD2-VM and cannot for  
the life of me get networking to work.

The installer does not see the onboard Gbit ethernet port nor can I  
configure at after installation.

It gives no errors when I modprobe e1000 to insert the drivers but I  
cannot "ifup eth0" without getting a "device eth0 does not seem
to be
present, delaying initialization." error message.  (yes I have the  
ifcfg-eth0 file set up properly)

What am I missing?

TIA

David

David M. Shirley wrote:
> I am trying to install centos 4.2 on an Asus P5LD2-VM and cannot for
> the life of me get networking to work.
>
> The installer does not see the onboard Gbit ethernet port nor can I
> configure at after installation.
>
> It gives no errors when I modprobe e1000 to insert the drivers but I
> cannot "ifup eth0" without getting a "device eth0 does not
seem to be
> present, delaying initialization." error message.  (yes I have the
> ifcfg-eth0 file set up properly)
>
> What am I missing?

My guess would be the correct driver.  Is e1000 really the correct
module for the NIC?

Hi all, does anyone know of a useful open source alternative to a 
Packeteer (http://www.packeteer.com/) ?

cheers