Am So, den 14.03.2004 schrieb Christian Moller um 17:15: > Hi Steve, > I added the ifconfig eth0 up line in the /etc/init.d/network script but it > still doesn't work. It says as it did be fore bringing up interface eth0 at > start up. It remains there for about 20 seconds then it moves on. It works > fine in RH9. > Best regards and thanks, > Christian I do not know what 3Com cards are affected in total by the known problem (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107389), but you can try switching off kudzu chkconfig kudzu off The crude hack with "ifconfig eth0 up" in the network init script is not recommended. Check the content of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Am I right the card has TP and BNC connectors? You use BNC or TP? Is it an ISA or PCI card? And please reply to the article you really reply to and strip the quoting. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 17:30:23 up 5 days, 17:49, load average: 0.48, 0.27, 0.15 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ] my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars