installing ethernet drivers and a kernel ?

[Rick Stevens]

jdyke wrote:
> I have pleasure of removing  win2k3 from our new Dell PowerEdge 750 and 
> installing RH9.  But there are of course a few issues, which i'm happy 
> to deal with after windoze, but i won't go into that rant.
> 
> The first of which are the Network Drivers.  Dell does not support RH9 
> but i found a link for drivers in linuxforums from someone doing the 
> same thing, recommended by dell for Intel 82541GL 
> http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?agr=Y&Inst=Yes&ProductID=841&DwnldID=2897 

Red Hat 9 is dead.  Red Hat end-of-lifed it in April.  It is now only
being supported through the Fedora Legacy project.  Red Hat actually
only supports the Enterprise-series (Advanced Server, Enhanced Server,
Enterprise Desktop and Workstation).

I'd recommend you update to Fedora Core 1 or 2 (FC3 will be out in two
or three weeks).  Stick with FC2 if this is a production machine, as
FC3 will likely have some glitches in it (as all new releases do).

> When i go to install, I get an error message from make, b/c i did not 
> install the kernel source (Makefile:65 Linux Kernel Source not found: 
> stop).  Why I didn't install the source i have no idea.  I can do that 
> now, but is there any reason that i should get and compile a newer 
> kerel.  My current version is 2.2.20-8 according to uname -r.

Yes, get the latest source and binary RPMs from one of the Fedora Legacy
mirror sites.  A list of the mirrors is at

	http://fedoralegacy.org/download/fedoralegacy-mirrors.php

You will need to fetch your update RPMs from there from now on.  I'd
suggest you download and install yum and set up the yum.conf file to
make updates easier.  Newer versions of up2date also can use yum
repositories.
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