Hello, I posted this below a couple of days ago and go no response I wondering if anyone could give me some feedback:
I recently recompiled my RedHat guiness release using the 2.2.20 source. I am using a 3Com Ethernet card. I get the boot time message that " eth0 ethernet initialization delayed" of course when the machine comes up an ifconfig only shows the lo interface. When I do a "cat /proc/pci" I see it has found my ethernet card and reports it as a 3Com 3c905. No if i attempt to do a insmod for etho which is aliased to 3c90x in /etc/modules.conf I will get an error message about "invalid device paramerters", however if I load the the 3c59x module the kernel will gladly install this module for me and I can ifconfig the interface and get routing working etc. Now if I alias this module in /etc/modules.conf and reboot I will still get an error message at boot "delaying ethernet initialization." However once the system is up I can once again insmod the module and configure the interface. I have tried running "depomod -av" prior to the reboot but to no avail? I know that kerneld is deprecated now so of course that is not running. I am confused as to why I can load this module manualy but it won't load at boot. Also there is a discrepancy between what /proc/pci sees as my NIC and the module that actually works? Can someone help me out here? I also have tried playing around with PnP in kernel builds and in the BIOS itself but still no go. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Lastly I tried building a monolithic kernel too with the appropriate driver and that gets nowwhere either. Thanks Clifford _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
