According to John Kee: While burning my CPU. > > I have an old PC that I installed Linux (Red Hat 4.2) on - it's a 486 66MHz > with 20MB RAM. I put a standard 3COM network card in it - 3C509B. The card > was configured while in DOS, then I rebooted and configured the network > settings using netcfg. I still get the error message "delaying eth0 > initialization". Localhost can be seen. Are there some things I'm missing? > What can I check to troubleshoot this? Bill Kocik made an excelant suggestion which could help you if you had a PCI PC, considering you said "OLD" i would point my finger at No defined driver for your 3com card. You said also you configured the card under dos, which means you will know its IRQ and base address, (dont you!), and possably you tested the card right,??. Now if we know it works then it should work under linux, the first consideration is 'do i have support for a 3com card', the second if yes is it in the kernel or defined as a module, i would go for the module considering the error message. You mention "netcfg" so that should have said it found the card during the configuration. I dont know the name of the module for your particular card, but it would be something like 3c509, i will use this as the example. Check /lib/modules/$kernel_version/net for it, if you installed linux and took the install advice about installing a standard kernel with modules then it should be there, make an entry into /etc/conf.modules; alias eth0 3c509 That entry will tell kerneld what driver to use for eth0 and hopefully insert the module automaticly IF you start Kerneld in a bootup script. If not do; depmod -a modprobe 3c509 Read the Module-HOWTO.gz in your /usr/doc dir, also /usr/src/linux/Documantation/networking/net-modules.txt Of course if you cant find the module in the /lib/modules dir, and you have a standard kernel installed by your distribution install, then you could get the module off the distribution source, if all else fails compile a new kernel and define your needed driver either as a module or compile it into the kernel. I hope some of this helps. > > Thanks, > John Kee > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Regards Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
