[olug] eth0 troubles

[Neal Rauhauser]

    Are you using two of the same card type and trying to compile support into
the kernel? My memory of linux is fading fast :-) but I recall having to
append something in lilo to get this to go - try making the support modular
and your problem may just go away.




bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:

> Hi guys.
>
> Here's my situation.
>
> I have a box I'm loading up to be a firewall.  Bare bones install (no X,
> etc).
>
> It's a 486/33 with 48Mb of Ram, and 1Gb of space.
>
> I have it loaded with Redhat 6.2.
>
> I downloaded 2.4.5 and compiled it for a 486 with all the Networking
> options.  It boots fine.
>
> The problem is the ethernet card.  It doesn't seem to recognize it even
> though I compiled support for it into the kernel.  It gives me a "Delaying
> eth0 initialization" when I do an ifup eth0.  When I do an ifconfig command
> to configure it it says "No such device".
>
> If I boot back to the 2.2 kernel it works fine.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Bill
>
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