I am relativly new to linux so bare with me. I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop. I have a 3COM PCMCIA nic with model number 3CCFE575CT. After the finishing the install, something keeps failing on boot up. The message is below:

bringing up interface eth0 3c59x device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization

After the computer booted, I setup the nic with netconf and tried to ping someone but i get a

connect: Network is unreachable.

I can ping the loopback address. If I do a ifup eth0, i get

3c59x device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization.

If I go into the KDE control center under information pci, I shows that it detects the nic.

Bus 4, device 0,function 0:
Ethernet Controller: PCI device 10b7:5257 (rev 16)
I/O at 0x4800 (0x487f)

I was thinking its probably something wrong with the driver but I had Mandrake 7.2 on the same machine and it found the nic and I had no trouble with it at all. Its probably something stupid I just dont know about yet but I am trying to steer away from the Micro$oft world

Thanks

you should have this in /etc/modules.conf
the thing is does the pcmcia card service load before the eth0 interface is brought up?

I had

alias eth0 3c59x

in my /etc/modules.conf. On the next boot up, I noticed that right after eth0 fails to initialize, pcmcia starts up. The pcmcia card service starts after eth0 which doesnt make sense

no it does not, but I have a laptop running RH 6.1 that is the same way, and it fails when it trys to bring it up. However after the cardservice loads it comes up. So by the time it finishes booting the interface is up.

Any other ideas?

see if this fixes it

modprobe 3c59x
then setup the nic

how are you configuring it? dhcp or static

I am trying to set it up static. After I do modprobe 3c59x I get:

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: init_module: No such device:

It then gives me a hint about trying dmesg 3c59x. Here is an excerpt from that:

Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
options: (pci) (cardbus) (pm)
PCI: No IRQ know for interrupt pin A of device 00:02.0. Please try using pci=biosirq
PCI: No IRQ know for interrupt pin B of device 00:02.1. Please try using pci=biosirq
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000082

Is the card not getting an irq assigned to it?

it sort of sound like that's the wrong module, but it's not.

or is it
try modprobe 3c575_cb

Thats the module it loaded up by default. The same card worked in Mandrake 7.2 so I should work in 9.0.

try modprobe 3c575_cb

The results were can't locate module 3c575_cb

ok, I think that's your problem. It might be worth trying to build the module for it and see

I ran harddrake from the desktop and it found an ethernet card

3c575 Fast EtherLink XL

change the modules.conf file to

alias eth0 3c575_cb

or just remove the eth0 line and see what it does


I think you will need the module though

Still the same result, it looks like i will need the module. I wouldnt have any idea on how to find the module and install it so can you point me to a tutorial on how to do that because i dont want to waste any more of your time.

THanks