Hi,

A second question: I have installed 2 NIX on my Redhat 8 machine. One is being recognized, the other isn't. However, I know 100% sure it is working.

When (using GNOME) I go to >system settings > network and I want to activate this second NIC, it says: " Cannot activate network device eth1"/

I simply do not see a reason why he shouldn' recognize it. The card is from 3COM, not an exotic one.

Any idea on how to start debugging this one?

Regards,

Wim Wauters

Do the errorlogs throw up anything more detailed??

I have an Asus A7N8X deluxe with a 3com and a nforceMAC(realtek 8201 Bl PHY) running Redhat 9.0(shrike)

Kudzu does not recognize the nforce NIC card either, but go to:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0248.html
and read the readme in step two

this might help

are both your cards 3Com?

what do your /etc/modules.conf say

both NICs are on board not seperate cards
one is a 3com and the other is an nVidia chipsets

I could be way off base here.. but you might want to see if the driver is properly loaded (or at all) for the 3Com NIC. At the command line put in the following:

ifconfig -a | more

Do you just get eth0? If so, then you most likely just need to install a driver for the 3Com NIC. Find out it's model number, and head over to www.3com.com to get a driver (if one exists).

However, if you get both eth0 and eth1, then you might want to try:

ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth1 up

Like I said.. I am probably way off base... but I figured I would put in my 2 cents.

Erik