Help! Not initializing eth0!

[Christopher Twigg]

This might be a bit late (I was out of town) but check if the correct
module is getting loaded by doing a 'cat /proc/modules'.  My best guess is
that one of the RPMs toasted your /etc/conf.modules somehow so you might
take a look at that.  As far as updating your modules goes, the RPMs
and a reboot should take care of that but hopefully if you mess around
with loading your ethercard module by hand you'll be able to figure out
where it's going wrong.  You didn't mention what kind of card you've got;
I've been having a lot of trouble with DEC Tulip cards and newer (2.2.10+)
kernels that I had to grab a newer driver for.  One thing you could try is
find out who maintains the driver for your card, grab the latest version,
compile it by hand (according to instructions that I can dig up if
necessary), stuff it in the /lib/modules directory, and insmod it.  One
would hope there would be a better solution, though.

Christopher Twigg
cdtwigg at u.washington.edu

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, mike h wrote:

> Assuming you load your network drivers as a module, if you updated the
> kernel I bet you'll also need to update your modules.  Try loading your
> network card's driver using 'insmod' and see if it works.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> Michael Hornung		foobar at u.washington.edu
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, D. Sanderson wrote:
> 
> |
> |My box has been up and using the ethernet card for a couple of months.  I
> |just installed ssh and added /usr/local/sbin/sshd to /etc/rc.d/rc.local,
> |and to make sure it starts up properly after a reboot, I shutdown -r now'd
> |the thing.
> |
> |Rh6.0 has that nice colored "OK/FAILED" thing next to items during start
> |up, and eth0 came up FAILED.  It said it was going to delay initializing
> |eth0.  It never got around to it, and now my server is inaccessible.
> |
> |Obviously I must mention that last night I downloaded and rpm -Fvh'd
> |everything in the RH6.0 "updates" directory, including the slightly newer
> |kernel.  Do I need to recompile the kernel or something?  Is there another
> |update that might have knocked out eth0 functionality?
> |
> |I don't even know where to begin diagnosing this problem.  The card works
> |(before the reboot it did), the lights are all on.
> |
> |Any help I can get as soon as possible would be greatly appreciated!
> |Thanks!
> |
> |_____________________________________________________________________
> |Dan Sanderson                               dsanders at u.washington.edu
> |University of Washington      http://students.washington.edu/dsanders
> |
> |
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