Mike Glaser wrote: > I am having a weird network problem I cannot figure out. Hopefully the fix is > simple. > > I have a brand new fresh install of RedHat 6.2. When going through the setup > I was NOT asked about setting up a network. I guess it could not detect that I > had a network card installed... but I do. > > I was hoping kudzu would detect it at boot time, but it did not. I went through > linuxconf to set up eth0 and everything looked fine. I rebooted, and nothing > came up. > > I recieved a message that said something like 'bringing up eth0 : Delaying > initialization of eth0' or something similar to that. > > If I manually load the module with the following: > 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/3c509.o' > the module will load. Then I type '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart' > I get exactly the following: > 'Bringing up interace eth0 eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.' > > At this point ifconfig shows that eth0 is running, and the card seems to > function normally. When I reboot, all is lost and I need to go through all of > this again. I am getting the feeling that somehow an 'alias' (I think that is what > it is called -- meaning two IP addresses for one interface) for eth0 may be set > up. If that is the case, I must have inadvertently done that when trying to set > up the card the first time. This isn't what I want. > > Question: What do I have to do to get this card to funtion properly at boot > time without having to throw a bunch of commands into my rc.local file? > > Thanks, > Mike Glaser Have you added an eth0 entry in conf.modules? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org