[vortex] cannot activate eth0 (3c59x [duh]) in RH8.0 dual boot system

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Jordan Weber-Flink wrote:

> (note, this is the complete output, eth0 is not listed)

Then you have a networking configuration problem, that doesn't involve the 
driver.

> 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> 00:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xd800. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
>  ***INVALID CHECKSUM 0011*** 

This indicates a problem with the EEPROM that keeps the settings on the 
card. Did you use any kind of tool to modify the media type ?

> /etc/sysconfig/netw../ifcfg-eth0:
>  DEVICE=eth1

Well, if ifcfg-eth0 points to eth1, I won't look further :-)

> /etc/modules.conf entry:
> alias eth0 3c59x

This is correct.

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