ethernet after reboot n/a

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

Hi!

I´m running a masquerading and packet-filtering firewall on my 
home-machine. Since my graphics-card displayed vertical stripes 
whenever the harddisk was active, I powered the machine down (losing 
224 days of uptime <argh>) and swapped the gfx- and scsi-card in their 
respective pci-slots.

I have 3 network cards in the box, one DEC21140-based (eth0, to a 
windos-machine), one NE2k-clone (eth1, ISA, to another windos-machine) 
and one RTLsomething-based (PCI, eth2), utilizing the via-rhine driver 
as module.

After bootup, all the cards were detected as usual, but when issuing 
ifconfig to eth2, it complains SIOC ressource unavailable, which is not 
good, since my dsl-connection goes over that card. I checked, and have 
an active link-led on the dsl-modem and at the network card, I also see 
activity on the dsl-modem, but only TX, no RX.

Since I need the dsl-connection rather badly (working from home), I 
swapped the cabling between eth1 and eth2, changing ip´s and routes et 
al and the dsl-connection works fine over eth1. eth2 is still dead.

dmesg:
eth2: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0xd800, 00:80:c8:e4:83:e9, IRQ 9.
eth2: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 0000.

ifconfig -a:
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:E4:83:E9  
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:7 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd800 

bash-2.03# rmmod via-rhine
bash-2.03# modprobe !$
modprobe via-rhine
bash-2.03# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
via-rhine               8192   0 
ne                      8192   1 
8390                    8192   0  [ne]

bash-2.03# ifconfig eth2 192.168.1.1/24 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable

Since eth1, eth2 and the dsl-modem are all only capable of 10mbit/half 
duplex I also cannot imagine the problem there.

Any ideas for me? (my GFs box hangs on the now-dead eth2, so I should 
get it back up before she notices ;/ ).

TIA,
&rw
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