I am using RH8 and while booting I receive following message:
Bringing up interface eth0: winbond device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization.

I am using COmpex 100ATX-PCI network card which works under windows on my dual boot machine (RH8 server/ W2K server).

I tried netconfig but receive after ifup eth0 same message.

What to do?

Thanks.

PAtrik

Can you post the ouput of

lspci -v

?

I believe this nic uses the Winbond w89c840 driver. (Most other Compex boards are NE2000 clones).

see
http://www.scyld.com/network/

you should see something like w89c840 from the output from:
lspci | grep Ethernet

if not, type something like:
insmod w89c840
or
modprobe w89c840

aren't sure of the module name? the drivers are usually located at /usr/src/linux-2.2.18/drivers/net again where 2.2.18 is the kernel version you are running.

if you don't know your kernel, type
uname -r

if you get no error message, from insmod or modprobe, then it worked.

after that, configure with
netconfig
and then check you work with
cat /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

First, answer for Bert:

Among other things I received (with lspci -v):

00:0a Ethernet controller: Compex RL100TX
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O Ports at b000 [size=256]
Memory at de800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K]

Secondly, for rioguia:

After typing lspci | grep Ethernet I received:

00:0a Ethernet controller: Compex RL100TX

Kernel is: 2.4.18-14

Unfortunately, this is not working:

I followed your instructions, compiled pci_scan and winbond-840 but when doing insmod pci-scan.o I receive nothing and with insmod winbond-840.o I get these errors:
winbond-840.o: unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister
winbond-840.o: unresolved pci_drv_register

I installed compiled drivers in /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net

Any help?

THanks.

use:

modprobe winbond-840

You don't need the .o and you shouldn't need to insomod pci-scan before hand since modprobe is smarter than insomod and should autoload that plus whatever modules it needs to "resolve" anything.