Red Hat 9.0 problems: device eth0: does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

[Ameesh]

I keep getting this error when setting up my nic in Red Hat 9.0

"device eth0: does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

any ideas?

 

[Nothinman]

The driver probably isn't loaded. What type of card is it?

 

[Ameesh]

3Com , this is a fresh install of redhat 9.0 so i assumed that my drivers would be installed.

 

[Nothinman]

3Com what?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Hopefully this link works: Supported 3com devices.

Give us the model and we might be able to help.

 

[Ameesh]

LInux reports the card to be a 3c501, i have no idea if its accurate.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
LInux reports the card to be a 3c501, i have no idea if its accurate.

That's a really old card.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
LInux reports the card to be a 3c501, i have no idea if its accurate.

It probably is.

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/shrike-list/2003-July/msg00893.html
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/21/1999/12/0/3050617/

A couple of old links on this.. Apparently this NIC is not well loved, nor is it known for its outstanding quality and performance. One of those links suggests trying modprobe 3c501, or you might look through the kernel config and compile support into the kernel directly. Or, preferably, use a different NIC if possible.

 

[Ameesh]

ok so i figured out how to get it working!

i actually had to open up the box, it was a netgear card and linux was reporting it incorrectly as a 3C501.

I found some drivers but the makefile was fvcked up so i had to fix that, (which is a real treat if any of you have worked with the Makefile syntax)

then my bios was not setup correctly so i had to set up individual irqs for each of my pci cards (sound card and NIC)

now after 3 days i have successfully setup a computer with a working internet connection! <facetious>huzzah!</facetious>


PS: I really do appreciate all the help you guys gave me, it led me on some interesting paths which helped me eventually resolve my problem.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I'm suprised that you had to compile a driver for it. What does lspci -vv tell you about it?