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Re: Boot Msg:Delaying eth0 initialization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Fri Oct 23 13:52:33 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:50:28 -0400 (EWT)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
To: rex <rex.henderson@santafe.cc.fl.us>
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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, rex wrote:
> Anyone have any idea what the following boot message is telling me?
> "Delaying eth0 initialization"
> My 3c5x9 used to come up fine (detecting the card, displaying the mac
> address, etc.)
> After placing a call to SVGATextMode in my rc.local script to set the text
> mode for my console
> my 3c5x9 card was no longer to be found. I took the call back out of my
> rc.local and the card still
> will not come back to life.
> Card works fine when booting from floppy and running Netware VLMs so it
> isn't a hardware problem.
> Read the Ethernet-HOWTO and grepped for everything under /usr/doc for the
> terms
> "delaying initialization" "eth0" and "3c5x9" and still found nothing on
> this.
> So i placed boot parameters for the card ether=10,300,eth0 and ran lilo.
> Still nothing.
> The program 3c5x9 from the 3c5x9-utils package does detect it using these
> settings.
> Everything looks okay in my ifcfg-eth0 file. ifconfig won't bring it up.
> Tried the X program netcfg to check the settings and activate the interface.
> Still no go.
> Swapped the card with a new one, checked all settings, etc., etc. and still
> no go.
> Recompiled kernel 2.0.34-0.6 (maybe corrupted?) and still no go.
> Suggestions anyone?
>
Upgrade to kernel 2.0.35 your current kernel is not a "release"
kernel. You must have one of the first Manhattan CD's.
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