[ale] Configuring 3COM NIC

[Prasanna Subash]

send the output of 


ifconfig
ifconfig eth0
ifconfig eth0 up

My hunch is that the previous eth0 card info is in /etc/modules.conf or
/etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Ignore the failure, that happends during bootup, you can always bring it
up manually.

-Prasanna

> Chris Cillo wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to get a 3COM PCI NIC to work in my Red Hat 6.1 Linux box.
> I had a 3COM ISA NIC, but could not get it to work, so someone
> sggested a PCI, I got the PCI card installed and removed the ISA card.
> It saw the PCI card right away. I go to the control panel to remove
> the software for the old ISA card, and it lets me delete it, but it
> just comes right back. Plus I get an Init failure on boot up for both
> eth0 and eth1. I changed the settings on eth0 to match the IRQ and I/O
> address of the new NIC, but I still get the failure on boot up. And
> the ISA does not seem to want to be deleted.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> A newbie Linux user.
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