On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:58:12AM +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On known-good hardware, which has co-operated flawlessly with all SuSE versions from 6.2-9.0, 9.1 can't find its 3com Etherlink III network card on boot. The message 'waiting for mandatory device' appears, then a 15 second countdown, then 'failed'. When booted, ifconfig only knows about lo0.
Don't worry, I have the same problem with 2 different ethernet port chipsets on my 2 SuSE 9.1 machines, so it's not really related to your particular hardware. I haven't figured out exactly what's responsible for this, but I to intend to have a look at this soon. On my machine, this boot problem happens once every so many boots, so not every time I boot I have this problem. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff