my ethernet card problem, pls help

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I have two DELL servers of the same brand(power edge 2500),I installed linux on one successfully. I installed linux on the second server,but during booting it displays "delaying eth0 initializing" or "starting eth0 failed".Athough it finally boot into linux gui,but I cannot access internet thru this machine.

I tried so many options like
check for ioport or interrupt conflict - none
dmesg - my nic is not among
netcfg - most time eth0 is inactive(I activate it but still the problem persist)
I check on my linuxconf, my setting were all OK.

Pls I need help on this.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,









If they are identical including the network card then you should be able to see the problem by comparing the two /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 files and also the relevant entries in /etc/modules.conf .









The ifcfg-eth0 should be identical except for any static IP addresses and the /etc/modules.conf should have something like :









alias eth0 eepro100









(where eepro100 is an example of a driver module name for the card )









there may also be a matching 'options' something roughly like :









options eepro100 options=0x50









If it works on one make sure the other is the same. Also, the driver module should be physically on the system in a directory such as :









/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/









(where 2.4.18 is your actual kernel version as reported by the command 'uname -r') . If you are using a 2.2 kernel the subdirectory is a bit different but the first three levels would be the same. You can locate with 'find' :












# find /lib/modules -name "eepro100.o"









Restart the network :












# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart









Otherwise maybe the NIC is faulty - its always possible. You could always swap the cards between the 'identical' machines to test.









Hope this helps