[ale] Strange issue with NIC after installation

[Jerry Yu]

the following info may help troubleshoot
/etc/modprobe.conf
lsmod |egrep -i "ethMod1|ethMod2"
ifconfig eth0|eth1
ifcfg-eth0
dmesg|egrep "eth0|eth1"

On 8/4/06, Ryan Fish <FishR at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>  After installing a new secondary NIC in a RHEL3 ES box this past weekend
> I had a lot of trouble getting the OS to recognize it correctly.  Although
> the MAC address of the NIC is correct in ifcfg-eth1 I keep receiving the
> following error when attempting to ifup it:
>
>
>
> ifup: Device eth1 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring.
>
>
>
> Followed by:
>
>
>
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1
>
>
>
> The new NIC is a 3Com 3c905b 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) that is set to
> use the 3c95x driver.  After the initial install of this NIC I had to remove
> it, restart without it then replace it in a different slot again and run
> Kudzu again to set it up.  Early this morning I had to reboot the box; the
> NIC failed to come back up and I always get the different MAC address than
> expected error when I try to start it manually using ifup.  The only change
> made between when it was running and now is a different cable which is known
> to be good (I replaced it because the old one was too short).
>
>
>
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf reports:
>
>
>
> class: NETWORK
>
> bus: PCI
>
> detached: 0
>
> device: eth1
>
> driver: 3c59x
>
> desc: "3Com Corporation|3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]"
>
> network.hwaddr: 00:50:DA:C3:04:CD
>
> vendorId: 10b7
>
> deviceId: 9055
>
> subVendorId: 10b7
>
> subDeviceId: 9055
>
> pciType: 1
>
> pcibus:  0
>
> pcidev:  9
>
> pcifn:  0
>
>
>
>
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 shows:
>
>
>
> # 3Com Corporation|3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
>
> DEVICE=eth1
>
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> BOOTPROTO=none
>
> HWADDR=00:50:DA:C3:04:CD
>
> MASTER=bond0
>
> SLAVE=yes
>
> USERCTL=no
>
>
>
>
>
> Any thoughts on this one?
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Ryan
>
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