I installed a Netgear gigabit ethernet card with the BroadCom "tg3" chipset... I'm running Fedora Core with the 2.6 kernel and it installed the tg3 driver for me. When I try to bring up the interface, it tells me the device eth1 doesn't seem to be present.

I read that a lot of people were having problems with the tg3 driver and I downloaded and compiled the bcm5700 module from broadcom. I yanked the tg3 driver with rmmod, changed /etc/modprobe.conf to alias bcm5700 to eth1, inserted the bcm5700 module, and got the same exact error when I tried to bring up the interface.

The driver is present (lsmod) and as far as I can tell everything is configured properly... Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing this?

Do you have two nics or one nic. If you have one nic it will be eth0.

Please type lsmod, lspci, ifconfig so people in this forum can help you further.

What I read about 2.6 kernel is that it uses different ways for modules than the 2.4 kernel. I do not know if broadcom complies to the 2.6 kernel. You can try to specify the verbos option when you are using modprobe.

I actually solved the problem... /proc/pci revealed that my eth0 NIC and the gigabit nic (eth1) were being assinged the same IRQ.

I switched PCI slots and everything works fine now : )