Need recommendation for NIC for Centos7

[cm01]

Hi Guys,
my home computer is a tower system, ran C5 fine and currently C6 using

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01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08)

As I understand it, C7 doesn't accept anything < 1GB NICs.

Output of lspci is

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00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Host Bridge (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 1.1 Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 2.0 Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:08.1 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08)

Can I get a recommendation for a NIC to install for C7 (I've already installed C7) that will "just work" ?

Let me know if you need more info.

Cheers
Chris

[TrevorH]

Just install kmod-e100 from ELRepo and you can use your existing 100Mbps card.

[cm01]

Thanks for the advice; I'll give that a try this weekend and report back

Actually, just to clarify, is that just a yum install <blah> ... or do I need to do anything else?
Of course, that would be after I do a 'yum install --downloadonly ' to my C6 install, then reboot and mnt/copy across the el7 rpm...
Will I need anything else?

[TrevorH]

kmod-e100 is in the ELRepo yum repo which is a third party repository and not maintained by CentOS (though if you read these forms then most of the contributors to ELRepo will be very familiar). You'll have to download the el7 version of the package from one of their mirrors manually, copy it over to the machine in question and yum install it from there. Once it's installed and you have network connectivity then you should download and install the elrepo-release package from the same place and install that so that yum will update the package properly if newer versions are released.

Don't use yum --downloadonly on el6 to do this or you will end up with an el6 package which won't be the correct one for an el7 system. It probably doesn't even exist in ELRepo's el6 repo as e100.ko is part of the CentOS kernel on el6.

[cm01]

Hey Mate,

thanks for that.

For anyone who comes across this :
(I have one system, multi-installs)

I manually d/loaded EL7 rpm from C6 install, re-boot to C7, mnt/copy, then 'yum install ..'. et voila
I then added EPEL repo + yum-plugin-priorities, set that up and ' yum update' .

[TrevorH]

Don't forget to add ELRepo (not the same as EPEL) as well so you get future updates to the kmod.