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?



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