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Re: Boot Msg:Delaying eth0 initialization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Fri Oct 23 14:05:02 1998
Reply-To: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: "rex" <rex.henderson@santafe.cc.fl.us>, <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:16:14 -0400
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
The SVGA libs might have "hit" the 300 I/O address and originally
reconfigured the card. Some video cards use this address space...
Move the Ethernet card to another I/O location, and check the IRQ's to be
sure they are NOT being shared...
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: rex <rex.henderson@santafe.cc.fl.us>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Friday, October 23, 1998 11:19 AM
Subject: Boot Msg:Delaying eth0 initialization
>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?
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