Hi, I had Ethernet card installed recently for Cable Internet. It is working properly in Windows XP. It is placed in one of the PCI slots. Windows detected the Hardware properly. But when I started Red Hat Linux8.0 during booting process it is saying that eth0 device is FAILED and so on. Later on Iam not able to activate this device. when I looked into the PCI information it gave me details of the device connected correctly. I have 3 devices connected to PCI ethernet card, modem, AGP card. All of them displayed correctly. How to solve this problem i.e. activate my ethernet card. I tried putting device in another slot then eth0 device FAILED info is not at all displayed. Why? vbanilkumar

do you know the brand/manufacturer/model-number of the "Ethernet card"?

Hi, For this you have check the Brand of the Network Card.....Try some standard cards.....

Have you tried setting an IP, subnet etc manually? You should be able to do that with a GUI frontend in redhat....sorry I don't know what it's called.

I have Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast PCI Ethernet Card. But the card isn't detected. What to do? Vendor gave me details of IP address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway. They also provided me with Device Drivers for Linux 2.2.x , Linux 2.4.x and Windows. During booting phase card is sensed. Previously when I didn't removed from the slot it failed to initialize the et0 device. Now when i removed and again reinserted it into the slot, It is not even showing details of that device. vbanilkumar

my "grep eth /var/log/syslog" displays: kernel: eth0: D-Link DFE-538TX (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xe0a82000, 00:50:ba:af:2a:60, IRQ 9 kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' my "cat /proc/pci" includes: Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) (rev 0). IRQ 10. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe41f]. How about yours? try insmod 8139too insmod mii

sorry, should have been my "cat /proc/pci" includes: Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 16). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3001000 [0xe30010ff].