Re: Device or resource busy error.

[Crispin Wellington <crispin@iinet.net.au>]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:43, James Rende wrote:
> Folks. 
> 
> I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from
> Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get
> Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe
> rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the
> Device is not ready or in use. 

try the 8139too driver aswell. Its suited better to some 8139 based
cards

If you read the source code comments in the 8139 driver code, you'll
probably want to go out and get a better card though :) The chipset
design sounds rather woefull.

Kind Regards

Crispin