ifconfig failure.
Greetings,
I sent this yesterday but never saw it appear on the list or in the
archive, so I'm assuming something went wrong.
I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old 486dx4/100 with 32 MB of RAM,
2 GB of scsi disk, and a tulip-based PCI ethernet card. This is an Asus
SP3g-based machine.
Installing from the base disk set went fine. When the system rebooted
after the base install the network was not visible. I noticed that the
light on the back of the ethernet card was out. Upon investigating some
more I noticed that the light is on when the tulip driver is loaded, and
goes out when the first 'ifconfig' is done. Ifconfig returns
"SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable". If I remove and
re-'insmod' the tulip driver the link integrity light reappears. but the
first 'ifconfig eth0' does the same thing. I even tried downloading and
installing the latest tulip driver.
I'm pretty sure the card is not dead because I swapped it with a known
good card and I see the same symptoms.
Any suggestions appreciated.
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