Re: 3Com Module wont load on boot

2002-02-14 Thread Statux
As far as the "Network Device Support" section goes: [*] Network Device Support ... [*] Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) ... [*] 3COM cards ... <*> 3c590/3c900 series... That's all you need from that section to get a card in that series to work. Under BIOS, I have my PCI slot assigned to a particular

Re: 3Com Module wont load on boot

2002-02-14 Thread Clifford Thurber
I am still confused as to why the interface would not be brought up when I build a monolithic kernel and configure support for all 3Com cards? Any ideas? Also doens't "depmod -av" get run during the boot sequence? Thanks again for your input. Cliff At 05:42 PM 2/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Whe

Re: 3Com Module wont load on boot

2002-02-14 Thread Statux
When you can do it manually but not at boot time, you are usually missing a dependency or two (things that haven't loaded by the time the interface is being brought up). Usually, in this case, you can bump the interface activation down the line a little (requires some editing of symlinks in /e

3Com Module wont load on boot

2002-02-14 Thread Clifford Thurber
Hello, 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 s