Re: Problems after removing NIC (RHL9)

[Stephen Kuhn <skuhn telpacific com au>]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 00:32, Ben Joyce wrote:
> hi list.
> 
> just wondering if anyone has experienced any problems with RHL9 booting
> after previously removing/re-inserting the NIC, in this case a 3Com
> 3C905B (iirc).
> 
> I powered down and removed the card and used it in another machine
> temporarily, then put it back in and now i have no networking
> capabilities... and on boot I get [FAILED] on the NIC/network related
> services/drivers/etc.
> 
> When i try to activate it (via the GUI interface applet) it fails too.

You might want to dig into your /etc/modules.conf and remove the module
from there first - then reboot - let kudzu "find the new hardware"
again; then once you're happening with that, you should be able to get
your networking back in short order.

stephen kuhn
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