My HP NIC is detected in BIOS but not in CentOS 5.11

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My HP NIC is detected in BIOS but not in CentOS 5.11

Post by ep7network0819 » 2015/05/19 05:38:12

I currently have an HP Proliant DL380 G5 server. It has two working embedded NIC cards and are appropriately listed as eth0 and eth1. I installed an HP NC380T PCIe Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter and when i enter BIOS the NIC card is detected and both Ethernet ports are listed.
When logged into CentOS as root user, I enter setup from CLI and choose "Network Configuration I go to Edit Device and choose New Device to add Ethernet. Inside Configuration I enter eth2 and I give it a static IP with a Subnet Mask".
I then go into Firewall and choose Customize then I select eth2 as Trusted device as well as Masquerade. I type ifconfig eth2, I get message "error fetching interface information: Device not Found" Please can any one assist me in getting it working?

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Re: My HP NIC is detected in BIOS but not in CentOS 5.11

Post by TrevorH » 2015/05/19 07:55:52

Post the output from lspci -nn | grep -i net and ifconfig -a
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Re: My HP NIC is detected in BIOS but not in CentOS 5.11

Post by ep7network0819 » 2015/05/20 03:03:49

I think the server isn't detecting the NIC card according to the commands I typed.
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Re: My HP NIC is detected in BIOS but not in CentOS 5.11

Post by TrevorH » 2015/05/20 07:58:14

Both of those cards should be supported by the distro "bnx2" module. How up to date is your kernel? The output from uname -rp should tell you. The latest el5 kernel is currently kernel-2.6.18-404.el5. If you are not currently running that or one close to that version number then it's probably worth updating.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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