> I have an old PC that I installed Linux (Red Hat 4.2) on - it's a 486 66MHz
> with 20MB RAM.  I put a standard 3COM network card in it - 3C509B.  The card
> was configured while in DOS, then I rebooted and configured the network
> settings using netcfg.  I still get the error message "delaying eth0
> initialization".  Localhost can be seen.  Are there some things I'm missing?
> What can I check to troubleshoot this?

When Linux says that about your Ethernet card, that means it can't see
the card (usually). When it did this to me with my SMC EtherEZ 8416 I
had to turn off an option in my BIOS that said I was booting to a pnp
operating system. Try checking the IRQ's and such, and make sure Linux
is able to initialize the card.


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Bill Kocik
Information Systems
Medar, Inc.
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