Delaying eth0 initialization problem. I have a Roadrunner cable modem and a SMC Barricade router that works great with my two computers. Each computer is dual boot. One have Win98 and Win2000Pro and the other has WinXPPro and Red Hat Linux 6. I can get to the internet with all OS's except Linux. When I do a netcfg all fields are as they should be except the connection status is inactive and when I set it to active in the netcfg window and save it the "delaying eth0 initializtion" message pops up in the terminal window. Am I missing a driver?

It does sound as though you have either a driver (module) problem or perhaps a resource (IRQ, I/O address) conflict, unless you are using DHCP and the card can't obtain an IP from the DHCP server. If that's the case, recheck the settings you entered against those in your Windows network configuration. What make/model of NIC are you using, and what module is being loaded for it? You can check which module is loading by looking at what driver is named in the "alias eth0 " line in /etc/modules.conf (it might be /etc/conf.modules in RH 6.1). You can see if the module is actually loaded by looking for it in the output of "lsmod". Also, look at the output of the "ifconfig" command. It should list information for lo (the loopback device) and eth0 (your NIC). Verify that the listed IRQ and I/O don't conflict with another device. If eth0 isn't listed, try "ifconfig -a". The -a option forces ifconfig to list all interfaces, active or not. If that doesn't show anything, type "lspci" or "cat /proc/pci" and see if there is an entry for the NIC there. If you get nothing from ifconfig -a, it is likely that you have an IRQ conflict. First, try turning off Plug-N-Play support in your BIOS. If that doesn't work, you can sometimes force an IRQ reassignment by changing the order of the cards in your PCI slots.

If you havent loaded a module, here is a post that explains how to. http://computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/6562.html hth, and DMR provides some good advice in case you have loaded your module correctly and stuff still isnt working. -Ryan

Is this a laptop? If so you need to load pcmiac before eth0. I have a toshiba laptop and it is a standard with that thing.