Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again from ifconfig eth0 up

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Zachary DeAquila <zachary@zachs.place.org> writes:


[snip]

> 'ifconfig eth0 up' results in the message 
> 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again'.   Anyone got any ideas?  is this
> a known bug?  I thought the 3com drivers were pretty bug-free...

I got this with an IBM Etherjet (UTP only model) when it wasn't
physically connected to a hub.  I think it must be returned for quite
a number of different errors.

Check in /var/log/messages for something like:

Jun  5 22:52:18 psyche kernel: loading device 'eth0'...
Jun  5 22:52:18 psyche kernel: cs89x0.c:v1.02 11/26/96 Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Jun  5 22:52:18 psyche kernel: eth0: cs8920M rev B found at 0x300 media RJ-45, IRQ 5 00 20 35 73 5a b5
Jun  5 22:53:16 psyche kernel: eth0: 10Base-T (RJ-45) has no cable
Jun  5 22:53:16 psyche kernel: eth0: no network cable attached to configured media

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