Hello. I am having problems configuring two Nics on
my RedHat EL 3 linux. The two cards I'm having problems
with are 3c905-tx cards. I successfully configured a dual
boot with Windows 2000 and both the cards work fine
with Windows 2000. This is for a cable modem connection
with comcast. DHCP is specified in windows with automatically
determine ip addresses with no gateway and this works fine.

As I boot into linux I get the following messages:

Bringing up interface eth0
Determining ip information for eth0....failed.

Bringing up interface eth1
Determining ip information for eth1....failed.

As far as I can tell my RedHat seems configured correctly....

etc/modules.conf has the following entries:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 3c59x

Contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

Contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ifconfig for eth0 and eth1 as follows:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:21:53:4D
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xa400
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:32:BA9
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:30835 (30.1 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa800

When I try ifup eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... failed.

When I try ifup eth0:
Determining IP information for eth1... failed.

I Booted back into windows and both cards work fine. Booted back into linux
with the same results as above. Any ideas anyone??

Also: I checked dmesg for eth0 and eth1 and got the following:

[root@localhost network-scripts]# dmesg | grep eth0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register d0.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register d0.

[root@localhost network-scripts]# dmesg | grep eth1
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
eth1: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register 2000.
eth1: PCI bus error, bus status 00a00021
eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register d0.
eth1: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register 2000.
eth1: PCI bus error, bus status 00a00021
eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register d0.

Any ideas? Thanks a bunch -T

You could try updating DHCP ( Comcast's modems are finicky )..

I'm not sure about that PCI error. It could be your having an addressing problem but then again it could just be because it's not getting a dhcp response.

I would update DHCP and if that didn't work try manually setting the addresses for those PCI slots in your bios to match what windows says.

Hey thanks for the earlier assist.......
got it going by disabling kudzu:
chkconfig kudzu off
Rebooted and successfully configured!....thx