Ok I am very very new to Linux in general, so please bare with me and I might need help figuring out the most basic stuff. HP DL360 G5, has a p400i raid controller and a Broadcomm nc373i ethernet adapter. Loaded Red Hat Linux version 4 to the brand new server, I had errors with the install as it would not find the driver for the controller or the drives. I did fix that by downloading the diskette version of the driver from the HP website and used a usb floppy. So I now have red hat installed on the server but have no internet connection. I have donwloaded the about 15 different drivers from HP and none have worked. If I try to create one in the network setup I can never activate it no matter what driver I choose. I have run full diags on the server from the smart start cd with no errors found, so it does not appear to be a hardware issue. Does any of this make sense to anyone? Also am I missing something here, should it be this difficult to install an ethernet driver, shouldn't it have found it on the intial load. I would hate to install this all over again as the raid driver is a pain. We have support with Red Hat but it is only a email support contract which may take forever. Here is what a few cowrokers who are Linux guys have tried, and the errors I get after installing the driver for this NIC...
1) we run rpm -ivh bnx2-<version>.src.rpm
If you look at:
usr/src/redhat/
You have directories called "BUILD" , "SPECS". etc..
Well the rpm install put files in the SPECS directory. so this worked.
Step 2:
Red Hat Installation:
# cd /usr/src/redhat
# rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bnx2.spec
This is where it creates the "Tree" for the drivers.
This is where it fails.
It actually creates the folder tree- under /usr/src/redhat/build.
But during the make file (building the drivers) ... it errors out.
Need to contact Redhat to find out why.
None of the troubleshooting steps applied to this, which was found in step 4...
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