I am having problems with my Realtek card. When booting it sometimes fails to initialize properly. When this happen I can not even initialize it manually. I have to restart the computer and it most always initializes fine then. Its not a hardware issue I think because it always works fine in my Windows partition.

Red hat 9 2.4.20 kernel
Realtek pci card on a TYAN 2466N-4M board

I am thinking its something simple hopefully. Here's the log when it fails to initialize:

Jan 10 09:36:01 localhost ifup: PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
Jan 10 09:36:01 localhost ifup:
Jan 10 09:36:01 localhost ifup: --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
Jan 10 09:36:01 localhost ifup: 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2017ms
Jan 10 09:36:01 localhost ifup: , pipe 3
Jan 10 09:36:01 localhost ifup: failed.
Jan 10 09:36:01 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth1: failed

I've seen threads where people's fails to boot on startup then they can manually boot but nothing like this. By the way eth0 was an onboard lan which I could never get working properly under linux or windows. I'll work on that later though.

Thanks,
Jonathan Strickland

Can you post the output of
dmesg;
lspci -v;

dmesg:

Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:18:24 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ca000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fef0000 - 000000001feff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001feff000 - 000000001ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff00000 - 000000001ff80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff80000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec04000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 130944
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126848 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1533.392 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3060.53 BogoMIPS
Memory: 510892k/523776k available (1312k kernel code, 10256k reserved, 996k data, 128k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1800+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd7d0, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
BIOS failed to enable PCI standards compliance, fixing this error.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
AMD7441: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
AMD7441: chipset revision 4
AMD7441: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: WDC WD136AA, ATA DISK drive
hdb: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c03be900, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: WDC WD800BB-00CAA0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: RW-241040, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c03bed60, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 26564832 sectors (13601 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=26354/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: host protected area => 1
hdc: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdc: hdc1 hdc2
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 146k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0849000, IRQ 10
usb-ohci.c: usb-02:00.0, Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Adding Swap: 522104k swap-space (priority -1)
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdd: DMA disabled
ide1: reset: success
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide1: reset: success
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: Model: RW-241040 Rev: 1.02
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
02:08.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x3400. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
00:e0:81:20:e0:ce, IRQ 10
product code 0000 rev 00.6 date 00-00-00
Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa.
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7809.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
02:08.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe08e9000, 00:40:f4:4a:3b:7a, IRQ 5
eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth1: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected AMD 760MP chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000
[drm] AGP 0.99 on AMD Irongate @ 0xf4000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized r128 2.2.0 20010917 on minor 0
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!


lspci -v:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System Controller (rev 11)
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at f0400000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 1010 [disabled] [size=4]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 99
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: f0000000-f00fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f8000000-fbffffff

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 05)
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 04) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]

00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI
Flags: medium devsel

00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=168
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: f0100000-f01fffff

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF/SG AGP (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Magnum/Xpert128/X99/Xpert2000
Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

02:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at f0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

02:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 3480 [size=64]

02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: AOPEN Inc.: Unknown device 0027
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at f0101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
Subsystem: Tyan Computer: Unknown device 2466
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 3400 [size=128]
Memory at f0101400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

It looks like it is finding it corretly. What is the output of
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1;
cat /etc/modules.conf;
cat /etc/redhat-release;
lsmod;
ifconfig -a;

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no

more /etc/modules.conf

alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias char-major-188 off
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 8139too
#SOUND
#DISABLED FOR NOW BECAUSE OF LOCKING UP ERRORS: TO BE FIXED LATA
#alias sound-service-0-3 es1370
#alias sound-service-1-0 es1370
#alias sound-slot-0 es1370
#post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

more /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)

/sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
soundcore 6276 0 (autoclean)
r128 87288 1
agpgart 46752 3
parport_pc 18756 1 (autoclean)
lp 8868 0 (autoclean)
parport 36480 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12948 0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too 17896 1
mii 3944 0 [8139too]
3c59x 30416 0
ipt_REJECT 3896 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2380 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14648 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sg 35980 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17912 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 11984 0
scsi_mod 106200 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35196 0
cdrom 33472 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2880 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 1
hid 21700 0 (unused)
input 5792 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 21160 0 (unused)
usbcore 77696 1 [hid usb-ohci]
ext3 69984 4
jbd 51220 4 [ext3]

/sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:20:E0:CE
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x3400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:4A:3B:7A
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2957 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2088974 (1.9 Mb) TX bytes:555479 (542.4 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:48268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3315797 (3.1 Mb) TX bytes:3315797 (3.1 Mb)

I've been trying to reproduce the error with no luck, everything looks good i thought.

Now I confused. Are you able to ping the router. It looks like eth1 is configured correctly and not showing any errors. Eth0 looks good to, but does not have a IP assigned to it.
Are you still have the trouble that you initial reported?
Sorry I reread you original post. Forget about what I asked above. I understand it does not always happen. Net time it happens try restarting the network and see if you still have trouble?
Get the output from
lsmod;
ifconfig -a;
lspvi -v;
dmesg;
/etc/init.d/network restart;
The test the network if it works get the output of
lsmod;
ifconfig -a;

Right now it works good. The trouble is sometimes on bootup, it fails to initialize eth1. When it does fail to intilaize it I can not initialize it manually either. Most threads I have seen point to troubles in the srcipt that initalize eth1 but users are able to usally do it manually or change the scripts. I was curious as to why when Eth1 will not initialize at bootup I can not intialize it manually either. I have to restart the computer and everything usally initializes fine.

Eth0 is not being used at this moment.

How are you trying to manually starting the network?

Before restarting check to see if the module was loaded and its used count is not 0.
lsmod | grep 8139;
Try
rmmod 8139too;
/etc/init.d/network restart;

What is the output of /etc/sysconfig-scripts/ifcfg-eth0;

thanks g-rod, i'l;l end this thread right now until I can reproduce this error again, now its off to work on getting my sound card working right with linux.