followup from nite with SAMBA

[glenn at aoi.ultranet.com (Glenn Burkhardt)]

> during startup message says something like start-up of eth0 delayed (there are
> probably log files I should quote???).
> I set it up at IRQ 10 and I/O of 0xb800(from PCI bus info)...at shutdown get a
> message saying....conflict at that address...I think.
> 
> thanks for the response and interest
> 
Don't assign IRQ's yourself unless you have a need to.  Leave the BIOS setup
on 'auto' for PCI bus IRQ assignments.

The board will report the IRQ it's using to the driver - this is not a
configuration parameter.

Things to check:

1.  In the directory /lib/modules, the file 'preferred' should be a symbolic
link to a the directory with the driver modules.  If you created your own
kernel, this won't be set up correctly.  Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to
see how this is used.

2.  The file /etc/conf.modules should have a line to associate the eth0 device
with the correct module.  The driver module eth0 points to must exist in
/lib/modules/preferred/net.

3.  You should try debugging the problem by executing the script

	/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup eth0

This is the script that's used to turn the interface on during bootstrap - 
you can execute it after boot as root.

Note the lines:

# is this device available? (this catches PCMCIA devices for us)
/sbin/ifconfig ${REALDEVICE} 2>&1 | grep -s "unknown interface" > /dev/null
if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
    echo "Delaying ${DEVICE} initialization."
    exit 0
fi


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