r8169 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Hello,
I have a new linux box I am setting up as a server for a small cluster. The idea is to have this computer be a gateway for the other computers on the system. Therefor I have two network cards. The first is integrated with the motherboard and is currently setup to be the internet connection. This connection was configured during installation (FC4) and works fine. The second card is one I added post installation. It is a linksys eg1032 v3. After struggling with the installation of this card for some time, I found out that the default FC4 driver (sk98lin) is the wrong one and went through a set of instructions I found on another forum to replace it with a Realtek driver (r8169). Here comes the problem. After following the instruction I found everything seemed to work fine. I was able to detect and activate my second network card (eth1). However, after rebooting it gave me the following error when I tried to activate it: r8169 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. I attempted several things to revive the connection including following the driver installation procedure again and altering the ifcfg-eth1 file but nothing seems to work. If you have any suggestions, they would be appreciated. Thanks, Benjamin Kant Dell Optiplex GX620 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 3 Gb DDR2 RAM Fedora Core 4 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4smp |
Is the old driver "sk98lin" still trying to load? lsmod
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No I don't think so. I changed the /etc/modprob.conf file after updating the driver. Here is the output from lsmod. As you can see r8169 is on the list but sk98lin is not.
Module Size Used by ipt_limit 6593 8 iptable_mangle 6977 0 ipt_LOG 10945 8 ipt_MASQUERADE 7745 0 ip_nat 22869 1 ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_TOS 6465 0 ipt_REJECT 10049 1 ip_conntrack_irc 10929 0 ip_conntrack_ftp 12081 0 ipt_state 5953 6 ip_conntrack 56861 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp,ipt_state nfnetlink 10585 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack iptable_filter 7105 1 ip_tables 25409 8 ipt_limit,iptable_mangle,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter parport_pc 31877 1 lp 16905 0 parport 39561 2 parport_pc,lp autofs4 23621 2 rfcomm 47193 0 l2cap 34113 5 rfcomm bluetooth 57029 4 rfcomm,l2cap sunrpc 145917 1 ipv6 270753 10 dm_mod 61277 0 video 20165 0 button 10705 0 battery 13509 0 ac 8901 0 uhci_hcd 36817 0 ehci_hcd 38733 0 hw_random 9557 0 i2c_i801 13133 0 i2c_core 26177 1 i2c_i801 snd_intel8x0 37025 1 snd_ac97_codec 92605 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_bus 6465 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 7749 0 snd_seq_oss 36161 0 snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 54993 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 13005 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 54641 0 snd_mixer_oss 21953 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 91717 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 28997 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 59045 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer soundcore 13857 2 snd snd_page_alloc 14793 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm r8169 31244 0 tg3 102469 0 ext3 135241 4 jbd 61909 1 ext3 raid1 25153 4 ata_piix 13509 10 libata 51533 1 ata_piix sd_mod 22593 12 scsi_mod 139753 2 libata,sd_mod |
Sounds like the driver has loaded but failed to find any supported hardware... My FC4 box shipped with r8169.ko drivers, maybe the old driver is being loaded instead of the new driver. Try
Code:
find /lib/modules -name r8169.ko |
That seems to have worked! Kinda makes me feel a little stupid.
Thanks alot. |
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