eth0 not loading

[Superbaker]

I am relativly new to linux so bare with me. I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop. I have a 3COM PCMCIA nic with model number 3CCFE575CT. After the finishing the install, something keeps failing on boot up. The message is below:

bringing up interface eth0 3c59x device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization

After the computer booted, I setup the nic with netconf and tried to ping someone but i get a

connect: Network is unreachable.

I can ping the loopback address. If I do a ifup eth0, i get

3c59x device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization.

If I go into the KDE control center under information pci, I shows that it detects the nic.

Bus 4, device 0,function 0:
Ethernet Controller: PCI device 10b7:5257 (rev 16)
I/O at 0x4800 (0x487f)

I was thinking its probably something wrong with the driver but I had Mandrake 7.2 on the same machine and it found the nic and I had no trouble with it at all. Its probably something stupid I just dont know about yet but I am trying to steer away from the Micro$oft world

Thanks

 

[ag6969]

I get the same thing with RedHat 8.0, however, the NIC does work. I noticed that the startup scripts initialize the eth0 interface before the PCMCIA controller, which essentially means it's trying to initialize something that isn't there yet. That's my best guess, if there is no PCMCIA controller, than the system won't be able to access the NIC. I hope this of some help.

 

[franklin97355]

Looks like you are using the wrong drivers. I think the card uses 3c575 drivers.