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in our tour of duty, we are facing another case where the ethernet device on motherboard didn't recognize by linux kernel. here are the specification : motherboard  : GIGABYTE G41MT-S2PT linux operating system :   Scientific Linux 6.0 another enterprise-based linux (centos, oracle linux) will works (i hope). we have try with fedora 14 , but it didn't recognize the device and the driver is not available yet. fortunate we have found the driver in binary (RPM package). first download the package file from the following links : i386 driver : kmod-atl1e-1.0.1.14-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm x86_64 driver : kmod-atl1e-1.0.1.14-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm step 1 install the package by typing  (as root) rpm -ivh kmod-atl1e... .rpm step 2 change directory to /etc/sysconfig/, please check whether there is a file called network, if there isn't create new file with your favourite text editor. cd /etc/sysconfig/ vim network the content of network file : NETWORKING=...

on several gigabyte motherboard, onboard network interface card  will not be detected on enterprise linux distribution (e.g. scientific linux, oracle linux server, etc). alternatively you must supply add-on card. or if you insist to use the onboard card, you must install the unofficial nic driver. this is tutorial how to install driver for onboard network interface card GIGABYTE first of all prepare your system. make sure it has package group "Development Tools" installed. if it has not, install it # yum groupinstall “Development Tools” download the source code : https://www.dropbox.com/s/na91bu4az4p9827/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.14.tar.gz extract the source code : # tar zxvf AR81Family-linux1.0.1.14.tar.gz the extraction process will make the new directory "AR81Family*", change to the directory # cd AR81Family* compile the source by type on terminal : # make then, # make install wait until the compiling process finish. next make the new scrip...