So Im sunburned and back to linux. I got redhat 7.0 installed (I installed everything) and Im working with gnome. I've set up networking with netcfg and activated eth0 but on boot: Bringing up interface eth0... Delaying eth0 initialization... [FAILED]. There is no option in the bios to turn off plug and play, (HP Pavilion thing), so how do I check for a conflict in linux?
Thanks a bunch -Eron

Hi there.
The network cards that I use all have utilities that came with them. It allows the user to change the Eprom, and turn off PNP, then manually set the IRQ etc.
I scamed an old Intel Pro ISA from a garage sale, and found a utility on the Intel web site. I'm just wondering if you can find the details of your NIC, you might be able to do the same??

Good luck

Wazza

IRQ information are found in a file in /proc.
less /proc/interrupts
check for the right filename.

OK, in the interrupts fileI dont see an IRQ for eth0. I get this:
CPU0
0: 43935 XT-PIC timer
1: 110 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 2446 XT-PIC i810@PCI:0:1:0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
11: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci, Intel ICH 82901AB
12: 37513 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 164981 XT-PIC ide0
15: 2852 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0

I dont know where to go from here.
Im using a netgear FA310 nic, which is linux compatible...
any ideas/solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a bunch -Eron

Try this - 'modprobe tulip alias eth0'

If you can't find tulip it means that you'll need to build the module. From what I have read the FA310 uses the tulip driver as well as the netgear proprietary one.

It does use tulip. I put in that command 'modprobe tulip alias eth0' and nothing seemed to happen. Do I need to be in a certin directory? This is my first trip into linux, last several weeks anyhow so I'll really green. How do I use that command? Jest type type it in at the command line as su?
Thanks -Eron

Try this How To:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html

Forgive me if I'm out of place here, I am a newbie but I did find some information that may help a little. When my PC boots up IRQ11 is assigned to my NIC, I noticed that 11 is your USB. While on the CNET help posts I saw that a person there was having problems because his NIC and USB were conflicting. This could or couldnot be a possible fix or troubleshooting aide to you.

The CNET users fix was to pysically move the NIC card in his PC, my attempted fix which failed ( I think my problem is of a different nature ) was to go into my BIOS and disable the USB. I don't have any USB stuff hooked up so it was no inconvenience.

When you say nothing happened you mean it went back to the command prompt with no errors? If thats that case then it worked. Although I can't say I've ever specified the alias on the command line. I would just have used to load the module. If it's worked then you need to have a look at your startup scripts and make the tulip module load at boot time. Unfortunately I can't tell you where this is not being a Redhat user... There is bound to be a graphical tool somewhere in Redhat to do it for you.

If you look at /proc/pci & /proc/interrupts again then you should see some sign of it.

HTH

Jamie...

Check with lsmod to see if your module got loaded.

You have to sometimes do updatedb in Redhat, then modprobe tulip for Netgear to work correctly. After you do this, edit your modules.conf file in /etc folder with alias eth0 tulip and you should be good to go.