Problems setting up a davicom ethernet card on a fedora 1 system
 

I have an athlon 64, and my system running the 64 bit version of fedora. During the boot messages I get

localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed


I cannot connect to the internet.

the hardware browser detects

"ethernet 100/10 MBit"
"manufacturer: Davicom semiconductor, inc."
"driver: dmfe"
"device: /dev/eth0"

when I see the card in my "network" window, it says it is "inactive" when trying to activate it, it says,

"dmfe device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."


When running knoppix, the autodetection worked fine, and I had no problems. I a still very new to linux, so I would appreciate any advice on getting this thing to work that you guys could give me.

EDIT: I think this is the right forum to post this in.......

Does eth0 appear under ifconfig -a

Also, is the module "dmfe" loaded under /sbin/lsmod

Cheers,

Finegan

I dont think either of those are there....here is the output just to be sure.


[xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx]# ifconfig -a
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:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7022 (6.8 Kb) TX bytes:7022 (6.8 Kb)



Module Size Used by Not tainted
via82cxxx_audio 24236 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 18664 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401 8984 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio]
sound 82496 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore 7524 4 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio sound]
parport_pc 19972 1 (autoclean)
lp 9608 0 (autoclean)
parport 40800 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_REJECT 4656 1 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1584 2 (autoclean)
ip_conntrack 31720 1 (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter 2972 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15424 3 [ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
floppy 62432 0 (autoclean)
sg 36664 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17836 0 (autoclean)
sata_via 0 0 (deleted)
libata 36232 0 [sata_via]
ide-scsi 12672 0
scsi_mod 122496 3 [sg sr_mod sata_via libata ide-scsi]
ide-cd 36136 0
cdrom 33928 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394 29104 0 (unused)
ieee1394 247096 0 [ohci1394]
keybdev 3136 0 (unused)
mousedev 6720 1
hid 23944 0 (unused)
input 7136 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd 20944 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 27576 0 (unused)
usbcore 82688 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
thermal 9432 0 (unused)
processor 12284 0 [thermal]
fan 2936 0 (unused)
button 4432 0 (unused)
battery 7832 0 (unused)
asus_acpi 11248 0 (unused)
ac 3288 0 (unused)

anyone?

Sorry about the huge delay in reply, 1 day no inet connection followed by 3 with a cold while crambing for a job interview...

/sbin/modprobe dmfe

And see what errors it spews...

Or really, what kernel are you running, and what's this guy spit out from:

/sbin/lspci

Cheers,

Finegan