Re: Device or resource busy error.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:00:16AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> > > 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.
There is also a driver named 8139too. Sometimes if works when rtl8139 doesn't.
Try it.
> > >
> > > I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Kernel 2.2.17
> > >
> >
> > What does 'lsmod' output and does 'dmesg' say anything about the NIC? Are you
> > absolutely sure this is the correct chipset too?
> It is. I have the same card and it's rtl8139 under 2.2.x. 8139too under
> 2.4.x.
> >
> > Well, I have had the strangest problems with NIC's sometimes. The machine
> > that I'm writing this from right now has two NIC's (one realtek 8139, the
> > other is a 3COM 905C). However, they would not work in _any_ OS unless I
> > switched the order in the slots. If worst comes to worst, try putting it in a
> > different slot, and when the table of IRQ's shows at boot up, pause it, and
> > check to make sure it has an IRQ too. Another thing that I find helps on some
> > systems is toggling the option of Plug and Play in the BIOS setup, ie. if it's
> > on, try turning it off. There also seems to be another realtek 8139 driver
> > called 8139too in the Linux kernel, I have never used this, but maybe it might
> > solve your particular problem.
> >
> This reminds me of a similar problem with my tv card...
> Check in your mobo book (or at the manufacturer's site) to see what IRQs are
> assigned to which PCI slot. Some are shared. Then switch the card to a
> non-shared slot.
>
>
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