NIC Type Not Recognized

["Rajendra Singh" <public maxima rajendra ca>]

Yesterday I installed Fedora 9 (I was running Fedora 8 before). The machine has two NICs, one is on the motherboard (and is detected fine), the second is a D-Link gigabit card. On Fedora 8 both worked flawlessly. In Fedora 9 they both work fine too, except during boot the second card (the D-Link) does not come up. I have to login and issue "ifup eth1" to get it up.

When I look in /var/log/messages, I see:
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> starting...
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'forcedeth'.
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> Found new Ethernet device 'eth0'.
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1a_a0_68_9f_18
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> eth1: Device is fully-supported using driver 'skge'.
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> Found new Ethernet device 'eth1'.
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1b_11_11_4a_5b
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the supplicant...
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system settings daemon...
Jul 4 11:38:08 maxima nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin ifcfg-fedora: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ...
Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: read connection 'System eth0'
Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ...
Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: error: File '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1' specified device 'eth1', but the device's type could not be determined.
Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ...
Jul 4 11:38:09 maxima nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: error: Ignoring loopback device config.

Any idea why "device type could not be determined" happens for eth1?

 

 

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