Cliff,

Thanks for your help.

This machine is scheduled to be a mail server for a business with a static ip address behind an ATT Uverse router.

There were no entries in the /var/log/messages that I could identify as errors. There was no dhcp exposure during the intallation; I planned to manually enter the ip, gateway, dns addresses, and subnet after the installation. The problem apparent was that the customary eth0 was not present for me to edit.

I have now taken the server back to my lab, and still am not able to get to the network card.

Any suggestions before I try CentOS 5.9 would sure be beneficial.

Greg ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Are there any messages in the logs? In particular 'dmesg' messages. (I don't have a CentOS system right here so I can't see which log is appropriate.)

Is there a DHCP server on the network? A little more detail on your situation would be handy. Is this a home network with ADSL or similar?

Cheers,

Cliff

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Gregory P. Ennis PoMec@pomec.net wrote:

I have a new install of CentOS 6.4 on an HP Pavilion 500-27c with one mother board nic card.

results of lspci : 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 04:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 539b

results of ifconfig -a

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:18:8B:80:AE:71

There is no /etc/sysconfig/network file present.

The install was performed without incident from a DVD.

I would surely appreciate your help in trying to activate this network. Is this a problem with the 6.4 disc or do I have a network card on this machine that is not supported by 6.4

-- Greg Ennis PoMec Corporation www.PoMec.Net

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On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Gregory P. Ennis PoMec@pomec.net wrote:

I have a new install of CentOS 6.4 on an HP Pavilion 500-27c with one mother board nic card.

results of lspci : 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 04:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. Device 539b

Please take a look at ELRepo's FAQ #4 ( http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ ) and determine the vendor:device ID pairing. It will help you find an appropriate driver.

Akemi _______________________________________________

Akemi,

That seemed to be a good start. I determined that there were three rpm's that satisfied the id pairing :

kmod-alx-0.0-2.20121003.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 22-Dec-2012 12:32 77K kmod-alx-0.0-6.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 17-Jul-2013 21:58 32K kmod-alx-0.0-7.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 30-Jul-2013 00:58 32K

I installed the first one and the system would not boot. I am in the process of reinstalling 6.4 and will try the 0.0.7 next.

Greg

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Gregory P. Ennis PoMec@pomec.net wrote:

Akemi,

kmod-alx-0.0.7 was the rpm that worked. I had to rebuild the entire os, and then had to add the /etc/sysconfig/network file, but after these steps I got it to work.

Thanks much for your assistance!!!!!!

Greg

Glad to hear you got it working.

Actually installation of kmod-alx should have been easier than that. Sorry that I did not refer to ELRepo's home page ( http://elrepo.org ). Just set up the repo as instructed and run 'yum install kmod-alx' -- yum will find and install the latest version. :)

Akemi