delaying eth0 initalization

[xerid]

I recompiled my kernel so I can IP Masq, however, when I boot with it, it gives me the message "delaying eth0 initalization"
during boot.
when i went back to the old kernel, i got the same message. how can i fix this?
do i need to install the second ethernet card first?
thank you

[jahall]

What types of cards are you using and are those modules compiled into the kernel?

If they aren't you will need to load them in conf.modules or using insmod.

Jay

[xerid]

Everything was working fine before I installed the new kernel.
I have a Realtek NIC
but the strange part is that when I installed the old kernel, i got the same problem, which makes me think that it's just some sort of comfiguration issues not directly related to the kernel.
when would someone get the message "delaying eth0 init.."
The card is recognized because i checked with linuxconf.
and i have DHCP enabled.

Are there a few thing I can check? I might be wrong.

xerid

[xerid]

I got a message that "insmod ????.o failed"
where ???? is something like 8390

i'm recpmoling the kernel again and reinstalling the modules

how can i remove the ethernet cards?

[Fandelem]

I've had the same problem trying to upgrade my kernel on my laptop. It's ver discouraging. I have never even tried to upgrade my kernel before, it's a new thing to me still *laugh* - but I can't get the hang of it just yet.. it seems to keep killing my pcmcia ethernet card, hehe.. for me, personally, in 2.2.17 I couldn't find any pcmcia support, or msdos-filetype support in the 'make menuconfig'.. i'm pretty stumped right now, it's bringing me back to my first days of learning linux, in the dark ;b

~kyle

any kernel guru's have icq? ;b

[xerid]

Ok, I seem to have found the problem.
Apperantly I type

%make modules install

instead of

%make modules_install

when recompiling the kernel......bad idea

Here are some things i learned
for those of you who dont know, you can find the configurations for your cards in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth?, where ?=0..n
also, you can see where the cards are initialized, in the script /etc/init.d/network
and the network configuration is in the
/etc/sysinit/network file
which i think is run from rc.sysinit, but not sure on that one...so double check.

xerid