On Jan 9, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Brett Conrad wrote:
> My ethernet card is a 3C905C-TX. Mandrake recognizes it in Harddrake,
> but on boot up it fails. Message "Bringing up interface eth0 FAILED".
> I
> know this card was working the last time I used the machine, when it
> had
> an NT 4.0 install.
That message can actually mean any number of things at a lower level.
Typically, though, it means one of two things:
1. The kernel module for your ethernet card can't be loaded correctly
or
2. You use DHCP and it couldn't get a lease for some reason
If Mandrake detected it correctly, then I would doubt that the problem
was in a missing kernel module. I would guess you are using DHCP and
can't get a lease.
Your best bet at this point is to look at the system log files. I'm
not sure where Mandrake hides all of it's syslog entries... probably
/var/log/messages or /var/log/system. What does it say about the eth0
device?
Kurt
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