network card : device not present

[Robert Locke]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:23, ne... wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2004 at 14:52, fellons in a soothing rage wrote:
> 
> >Hi to all.
> [...]
> 
> >My network card don't work again  :((
> >anaconda (I think is it! who make boot) and "ifup eth0"said "device not present"
> >
> >Some god man can help me, please ?
> >
> >I attach information result to my job :
> >- lspci found
> >00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> >RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> >
> >- in /etc/modprobe.conf
> >alias eth0 3c501
> It seems you have the entry in /etc/modprobe.conf. Your lspci
> finds a Realtek card and you are loading a 3COM card. I think
> if you change the /etc/modprobe.conf entry to 'alias eth0 rtl8139'
> this should solve your problem.
> 
> N.Emile...

On my FC2, I do not see a driver named rtl8139, but rather a driver
named 8139too.ko...

So I think the OP will need to modify his /etc/modprobe.conf to read
"alias eth0 8139too" to solve the problem....

HTH,

--Rob