I have been trying forever to configure my network card so I can use dhcp. Linux can detect my nic which is a 3com 3c905x beowulf card. But it seems to have trouble detecting the irq. On my windows partition it claims that my nic runs on irq 10. Is there anyway I can manually configure my nic so that it is on irq 10?
I am running RH 7 and I have been using the module 3c59x to try and configure it. When I run ifup eth0 it gives me a message saying it could not assign an ip addy to the nic. Then my machine freezes. Please if anyone has any info to help me I really need it!
thanks

Check the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifconfig-eth0

You probably need lines like:
BOOTPROTO=DHCP (I'm not sure if this is case sensitive after the "=")
and
IPADDR= (to allow DHCP to assign the address.

Then do:
ifdown eth0
ifup eth0
ifconfig -a

and check it out.
Let me know if it works.

thanks camel but.....
I did add
Device=eth0
onboot=yes
bootproto=dhcp

but what do I type for the Ipaddr= ? Do I type 192.168.0.2?

if you want to assign a static address,

bootproto=static
ipaddr=192.168...

oh I should also tell you taht I have a compaq computer and I think maybe there is a bios conflict. I tried adding compaq_io=0x2800 and compaq_irq=10 under the mod config file and that didn't seem to do anything either. When I run ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 it tells me that the resource is temporarily unavalible. Grr I am so confused. I dunno what to do.

No I don't want a static IP because I want to eventually hook my linux box up to share DSL with my Windows XP machine. Is there any other suggestions of what I can try? It keeps trying to assign the Nic an Irq of zero and I dunno how to fix that either. Help...this is sooo frusterating.