Hi David: I'd sent email to Gregg earlier on a similar problem I had. Take a look at the attached mail. I also have a question. Did you reboot your machine? Did you use a configuration program before doing so? I have a sneaking suspicion that linuxconf did my eth0 settings in, but I can't prove it. Another thing is to check the BIOS setting to make sure networking is enabled , that is, if you're running one of those machines with a built in Network card. Regards, Sonam
Hi Gregg: This is Sonam. Rick posted the 'eth0: delayed initialization' problem to SLUG on my behalf. The problems turned out to be the network driver not being loaded. We fixed it by adding a line in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit that loads the network driver just before /etc/sysconfig/network configures the interface. >From /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit : -- /sbin/insmod 3c90x # the line we added # Read in config data. if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/network else NETWORKING=no HOSTNAME=localhost fi -- A Linux system executes the scripts in /etc/rc.d/ as it boots. "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" is the place where the device drivers are loaded. The subsequent call to /etc/sysconfig/network invokes ifconfig which configures the interface. As you can see this is a quick hack. I don't know what broke - my system was running fine before I used linuxconf to change a few settings. Earlier versions of Linux used to load kerneld - a daemon that loads drivers on demand, I don't know if that's done now. Any ideas would be appreciated. Hope this helps! Sonam Rick Welykochy wrote: > > Please reply to this guy. > > -thnks rickw > > ---------- Rick Welykochy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------- > Corporate Express Australia - Electronic Commerce Team > Order office products from http://www.ce.com.au > Ph 02-9335-0435 Fax 02-9335-0753 Helpdesk 02-9335-0501 > Opinions expressed in this message are my own and not representative > of Corporate Express Australia Limited. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 23:51:02 +1000 (EST) > From: Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Delayed Initialisation on eth0 (fwd) > > -- > Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 23:25:12 +1000 > From: Gregg Jorgen Suaning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Delayed Initialisation on eth0 > > Dear Rick, > > Did you get anywhere with this? > > I have a similar problem that I've put on the back burner because I haven't > a clue how to approach it. I'd welcome a copy of any replies you got. > > Does the boot disk initialise the ethernet card properly? Mine doesn't but > it looks like it does. > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > ======================================================== > Gregg J�rgen Suaning > Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering > University of New South Wales > Sydney, Australia 2052 > Tel: + 61 2 9385 3916 > Fax: + 61 2 9663 2108 > Pager (via e-mail): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://gsbme-lx040.gsbme.unsw.edu.au/~greggs > ========================================================
