Interface wont init. On boot up.

I've been trying to install free swan and in so doing killed my machine. I installed 2.4.19 kernel. With the appropriate patchs. For some reason when I boot. Even with the failsafe kernel my interfaces fail to load. I can do a modprob eth1 and eth2 and it loads. Then I can also do an ifconfig eth1 up 192.168.1.1 and it loads. I tried using yast to remove and re-add the interfaces with no luck. Any ideas where to check next. ?