On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:59:35PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 02:54 9/28/2003, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've just installed rh9 onto my laptop (armada m700) and I get the > >following error during the boot sequence: > > > >Bringing up eth0: 3c59x device eth0 does not seem to be present. Delaying > >intialization > > > >It detected the ethernet card correctly (3Com 10/100 model 3CCFE575CT) > >during installation. Why is it having a problem now?? > > I had a card like yours and used it with no trouble > > The network comes up before PCMCIA. The network tries to start, but the > pcmcia service is not started so the network service cannot reach the card. > > What _should_ happen is that, when the pcmcia service starts, it sees that > the card is a network card and brings up that interface. If not, "service > network restart" (as root) should get it to come up. > > Are you hearing two beeps from the card when the pcmcia service starts, or > just one? > > Are you sure the card is not actually working later when the boot sequence > is complete? > > >Also it was suggested that the kernel should be > >updated. My kernel version is: 2.4.20-8 > > Do update your kernel. Up2date will make it easy and painless, but you can > also install the new kernel RPM by hand. If you haven't done this before, > or don't know how to do it, post again. If the order of the network and pcmcia syatems is wri=ong this can be changed by altering the numbers on the links in /etc/rc5.d directory. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
