CentOS - Nov 2008 - Gigabit Lan doesn't work

Hi all,

  I have installed Centos completely.  However, the LAN  doesn't work.
 Below is the message after I issue.  How can I make it work?

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567V-2 Gigabit
Network Connection

Thanks!

>  I have installed Centos completely.  However, the LAN  doesn't work.
> Below is the message after I issue.  How can I make it work?
>
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567V-2 Gigabit
> Network Connection
What does "ethtool eth0" tell you?

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Rilawich Ango <maillisting at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I have installed Centos completely.  However, the LAN  doesn't work.
>  Below is the message after I issue.  How can I make it work?
>
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567V-2 Gigabit
> Network Connection
>
> Thanks!
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Were you running a 2.6.27 pre-release kernel?  Everyone should read
this as there about 12 NICs that could be rendered useless especially
in a chipset integrated NIC.

"If you have an Intel PCI Express add-on card or integrated NIC, avoid
the Ubuntu 8.10 alphas, OpenSUSE 11.1 beta, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
beta, Fedora Rawhide or for that matter, any distribution that comes
with a 2.6.27 pre-release kernel."  So says the following arstechnica
article.
  
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/638006184931/inc/-1

i am no firmware expert, but i would think if you can find an
identical machine, you should be able to use the following command
from the article to backup good firmware, then use ethtool -E to
restore the good firmware over your bad firmware.
sudo ethtool -e ethX > savemyeep.txt

Rilawich Ango wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I have installed Centos completely.  However, the LAN  doesn't work.
>  Below is the message after I issue.  How can I make it work?
>
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567V-2 Gigabit
> Network Connection
>   

this intel driver is for 82567 and others..
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=3003&DwnldID=15817&strOSs=39&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng

I'd read the readme and release notes.    chances are, you'll need to 
intsall kernel-devel in order to build this, but not the full kernel 
sources as youre just building a driver module.