[vortex] cannot activate eth0 (3c59x [duh]) in RH8.0 dual boot system

[Jordan Weber-Flink]

Gentlemen and Ladies,

I have tried many, many things to get my network running over the past few
days. Here is a summary of the available information.

Please, advise me. I need to get this network running.




System:
Dual Boot, Partition 1: Windows XP, Partition 2: Red Hat 8.0 downloaded from
ftp, MD5's all correct.
Card: 3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) connected to Linksys
router.

The router is connected to a Verizon DSL modem. The card works fine in
Windows. It also worked during
the anaconda install process, and on my previous debian installation (since
removed.) Now it won't do
diddly. Here is the information I have gathered from various places:

route -n:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0
0 lo

ifconfig:
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5978 (5.8 Kb)  TX bytes:5978 (5.8 Kb)

(note, this is the complete output, eth0 is not listed)

Ran ifup eth0, get "link failed, cable present?" message and ran ps -A:

PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:04 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 keventd
    3 ?        00:00:00 kapmd
    4 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    5 ?        00:00:00 kswapd
    6 ?        00:00:00 bdflush
    7 ?        00:00:00 kupdated
    8 ?        00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
   12 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
   68 ?        00:00:00 khubd
  259 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  544 ?        00:00:00 syslogd
  548 ?        00:00:00 klogd
  565 ?        00:00:00 portmap
  584 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd
  665 ?        00:00:00 apmd
  703 ?        00:00:00 sshd
  717 ?        00:00:00 xinetd
  745 ?        00:00:00 sendmail
  755 ?        00:00:00 sendmail
  765 ?        00:00:00 gpm
  775 ?        00:00:00 cannaserver
  784 ?        00:00:00 crond
  821 ?        00:00:00 xfs
  830 ?        00:00:00 anacron
  839 ?        00:00:00 atd
  848 tty1     00:00:00 mingetty
  849 tty2     00:00:00 mingetty
  850 tty3     00:00:00 mingetty
  851 tty4     00:00:00 mingetty
  852 tty5     00:00:00 mingetty
  853 tty6     00:00:00 mingetty
  854 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
  899 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
  900 ?        00:00:05 X
  909 ?        00:00:00 gnome-session
  967 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
  978 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2
  980 ?        00:00:00 esd
  987 ?        00:00:00 bonobo-activati
  989 ?        00:00:00 metacity
  991 ?        00:00:00 gnome-settings-
  993 ?        00:00:00 fam
 1000 ?        00:00:01 nautilus
 1002 ?        00:00:00 magicdev
 1004 ?        00:00:00 gnome-panel
 1007 ?        00:00:00 pam-panel-icon
 1009 ?        00:00:00 rhn-applet-gui
 1010 ?        00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c
 1112 ?        00:00:00 gnome-terminal
 1113 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
 1144 pts/0    00:00:00 ps

relevant portion of dmesg:
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
00:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xd800. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
 ***INVALID CHECKSUM 0011*** <7>divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0


/etc/sysconfig/netw../ifcfg-eth0:

 DEVICE=eth1
 ONBOOT=yes
 BOOTPROTO=dhcp
 USERCTL=no
 PEERDNS=no
 TYPE=Ethernet


/etc/modules.conf entry:
alias eth0 3c59x

If you need any more information, let me know where to find it and I will
post it asap. Thanks!

- Jordan