I had the same problem with rtl8139 drivers.
The module did not load and of course neither the interface. 
I did an upgrade from 6.9.5 (7.0beta) to 7.0

What are the PCI ids (try the lspci command) of your card? We use it do identify
the card and pick the right driver.

My card is made my Netgear (FA310TX) and has the following id:
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140
[FasterNet] (rev 22)

Thanks for your help!

Hi, 

 Please send the output from the 'lspci -n' command - the regular output didnt
have the info we needed.

Thanks.

Here is the output for the ethernet card from lspci -n:

00:0a.0 Class 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 22)

Currently kudzu (the hw probing module) assigns the "old_tulip" driver to this
particular PCI ID.

Assigning bug to kudzu component.

We do not change the configured driver on upgrades currently;
it is assumed that the driver is properly configured before.

The old_tulip driver did not work correctly for you in 7.0?

No, for some reason I was losing a high rate of packets (just in my local network) and and it just wasn't working right.  I reset it to
tulip and also added a hostname (which I think was lost on the upgrade) and it fixed the problem.. If you would like, I can experiment
some more with dirvers and settigns and see what doesn't work :)

I have the same problem when I went from 6.1 to 7.0 install went great, but my 
network card is broke.  I have a Netgear FA310-TX card and it worked fine on RH 
6.1, but the upgrade it stopped working.  When I boot It says: 
interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0.... Operation failed.  

In netcfg it says that eth0 is active. I have even done a full reinstall of 
just 7.0 and same problem.  I know all the information about the IP and Netmask 
is all correct.  When I look in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file under class Network 
it says: 
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: LiteOne Communications Inc LNE100TX DECchip 21140
[FasterNet] (rev 20) 

and under driver it says ignore, but I thought my card needs a Tulip driver 
which I have tried to change to and still card is broke.  When I delete the 
class Network info from hwconf file and run Kudzu the same information comes 
back.  When I run 'lspci -n command' I get:
00:0f.0 class 0200: 11ad:0002 (rev 20) 

Also, at boot GET_LOCAL_HOST: 'localhost' IP address not available!

I know this is a problem with Red Hat 7.0 because two of my friends both 
upgraded from 6.1 to 7.0 and have different 3Com cards with the same problem.

I would appreciate any help with this problem!

I do not want to buy another NIC just found out that that one doesn't work too.

Thanks!

What does your /etc/modules.conf say?

/etc/modules.conf

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller vsb-ohci
alias eth0 tulip

Also, my /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

-
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detailed: 0
device: eth
driver: ignore
desc: "Lite-On|LNE100TX"
vendorID: llad
deviceID: 0002
subvendorID: 1385
subdeviceID: f004
pciType: 1
-

Also I noticed /etc/sysconfig pcmcia  file says:

PCMCIA= no
PCIC=
PCIC_OPTS=
CORE_OPTS=

I'm really hoping someone could help me to solve this problem.

Thanks

That *looks* OK. What happens if you do:

modprobe tulip
ifup eth0

Also, how are you configuring eth0 - statically, DHCP, something else?
If DHCP, what sort of DHCP setup/server are you talking to?

modprobe tulip
ifup eth0

Determining IP information for eth0.... Operation failed.  
failed.

I have the IP set to static which the IP comes from my LinkSys router then to 
my cable company.
I have tried DHCP and static both, and both can not determine IP information 
for eth0, but right now I have it set to static IP 192.168.1.101
When I ran RH 6.1 I had the same Linksys to cable system that worked great.

When I run RH Network Monitor and click to activate the eth0 interface.  I get 
an error: fail to active interface, but in netconf it says that eth0 is active.

Thanks!

The 'determining IP information' implies that it is trying
DHCP. What does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 say?

Will it was on DHCP, but now it is static.  When I ran agian:
modprobe tulip
ifup eth0

I get:
SIOCSIFFLAGA: Network is down
SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable
SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable

And can put it back onto DHCP.


What does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 say?
device = "eth0"
appaddr = "192.168.1.101"
network = "255.255.255.0"
onboot = "yes"
bootproto = "none"
IPXNETNUM_802_2 = ""
IPXPRIMARY_802_2 = "no"
IPXACTIVE_802_2 = "no"
IPXNETNUM_802_3 = ""
IPXPRIMARY_802_3 = "no"
IPXACTIVE_802_3 = "no"
IPXNETNUM_ETHERII = ""
IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII = "no"
IPXNETNUM_SNAP= ""
IPXPRIMARY_SNAP= "no"
IPXACTIVE_SNAP= "no"

Thanks!

What does /etc/sysconfig/network say?

Also, if you type 'dmesg', do you get any error messages from
the kernel related to the tulip driver?

What does /etc/sysconfig/network say?
network=yes
hostname="bigb.webserver"
gatewaydev=eth0
gateway=192.168.1.1

then, type 'dmesg':
I did not get any errors with the kernel not any errors of any type, but here 
is some info that I thought may help you from 'dmesg':

The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 0/120 updating PCI command 0001-
>0005.
tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99
etho: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 5x5800, 00:A0:cc:5c:0c:DD, IRQ 0.
etho: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 adversting 01e1.
PCI latency timer (CFLT) is unreasonably low it 0.   Settings to 64. clock.


Thanks!

Odd. I have the exact same Lite-On card, and I don't see any problems.

You may want to check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0;
above you have:

appaddr="192.168.1.101"

it needs to be

ipaddr="192.168.1.101"

closing; that card works OK in testing here.