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Is your card ISA or PCI ? I had an ISA card and it would not work with Red Hat. So that could be the problem. Kurt Ray Shaw wrote: > > I have a 3com 509b in a machine that has Red Hat 6.1. I know that it is > > compiled in the kernel but when the system boots it says that is failed to > > initialize. I thought that I had configured it correctly through the network > > panel but I apparently am missing something. Red Hat used to configure this > > at the time of the OS install. Has this changed? > > Did it give you some sort of message like "Delaying eth0 > initialization"? Try this by hand: > > /sbin/lsmod > > and see if 3c509 or similar is listed. If not, try inserting it: > > /sbin/insmod <module-name> > > You can find the module name by checking out > /lib/modules/<kernelversiion>. > > Since it's an ISA card, it may be trying to use some IRQ that another > card wants, and the other card appears to have won :) If you have a > mobo that initializes ISA PnP cards upon boot, hopefully the BIOS will > tell you which IRQ it's using...else you may want to find a way to run > the DOS 3Com Setup utility, and check/set the IRQ manually. > > -- > --Ray > > ------------------------------- > Soto la panche, La capra crepa > Sopra la panche, La capra campa