Hi Russell
I had the same problem added
"alias eth0 3c509" to /etc/modules.conf and ifup eth0 works again
Good Luck
Jeff
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Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 10:50 PM
Subject: [SLUG] delaying eth0 initialization
> I upgraded my RH 6 box to RH 7.1.
>
> At the completion of the upgrade, after the system rebooted, I got
> the following message during boot:
>
> bringing up eth0 interface: delaying eth0 initialization [FAILED]
>
> When I run "ifconfig eth0", I get:
>
> eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
>
> ifconfig -a only reports device lo
>
> The lan card is a 3c509
>
> I then attempted to install RH 7.1 from scratch but the install
> program never asks about the LAN card or any network questions.
>
> As a last resort, I reinstalled RH 6 and the install program detected
> the card correctly and installed the interface. It worked.
>
> I upgraded to RH 7.1 again with the same result.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with a similar problem? All
> suggestions gratefully accepted.
>
>
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