network driver module problem?

LinuxLover · 04-14-2008, 12:11 PM

Hello,

I am using RHEL4 ES . My lan card is intel. Lan card was working proprely.
Its module name is e100 , and module file is

/lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko

Due to some mistake this e100.ko file is deleted, now when system boots up it gives error message , eth0 device not found, and lan card is not working.

How can I create this e100.ko file so that my card will be operation again.

b0uncer · 04-14-2008, 12:58 PM

Rebuild your kernel.

Might be easier (on a RedHat that works around the rpm package managing system) to just reinstall your kernel. That ought to put the module files there again, including the missing one.

EDIT: actually you could try just extracting that one file from the kernel rpm package (make sure it's the same version that you're running) and just copying it where you removed the old one. There are a lot of programs that you can use to extract the contents of an rpm, like rpm2cpio or rpm2tgz which make a cpio or tgz archive out of the rpm; then you can just unarchive that file from either archive.