by I wrestled with my networking for several hours trying to get it to work.
It would always fail at boot time trying to bring up eth0.
I could do "insmod 3c509" and and then "ifconfig eth0 up" and could
ping only myself but no other machine.
Finally after reading thru some posts here, I changed the bios to
make IRQ 5 a "ISA legacy" device. Now it sort of works.
Still fails at boot time - just says Bringing up eth0 interface [FAILED] -
followed by nfs failures, etc.
But then if, at command line, I then do "insmod 3c509" followed by
"ifconfig eth0 200.1.1.1 up" then it starts working - I can go off
network fine.
I looked at boot messages with dmesg and see nothing about eth0.
My /etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=no
HOSTNAME=odin
DOMAINNAME=
GATEWAY=0.0.0.0
GATEWAYDEV=eth0
My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=200.1.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=200.1.1.0
BROADCAST=200.1.1.255
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no
This all looks pretty normal to me.
Have looked at pretty much every file I can find but can't find anything
that looks wrong.
Did not find where the actual "insmod" is performed or how it is determined
that the bringup of eth0 failed.
Would appreciate any suggestions on how to track this down.
Thanks,
Jim Webster