Description of problem:

The problem is that when the network script initializes the cards, the
actual initialization of the cards isn't yet finished by the time the
netfs script runs.  A bad work-around is to rig the random script
(which runs after the network but before the netfs script) to simply
sleep for 10 seconds.  This works well, isn't pretty.  Shouldn't the
kernel initialize the driver and card immediately?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL3 AS with all updates


How reproducible:

tg3 driver being used for two NICs


Additional info:

lspci -v output attached