2.4.18; 3c509 NIC not getting IP
I am not quite sure why I have issues with this machine periodically,
but here goes.
I have a 3Com card. It used to work fine when I was at school (dhcp). I
moved into an apartment with cable Internet and it is also dhcp.
My other Debian box works fine and my Windows box works fine.
I know I have an extra IP available to me through my ISP, since I can
connect my Windows laptop to the hub that all of the computers share and
it connects.
Anyway, I wanted to setup the Debian box in question as a router
(180MHz, so not good for gaming B-) and so I setup a second NIC, a
"Gigafast Ethernet PCI LAN adapter" and then the box decides that it
can't find the network.
With either card.
Well I removed the Gigafast card, and it still has issues.
When I try to ifup eth0, it says:
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 0 addresses.
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
Then it stalls here for a while and then:
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 0 addresses.
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
Again it stalls, but then it says:
Operation failed.
and then I am at the prompt again.
lsmod gives:
3c509 Size: 8576 Used by: 0
isa-pnp is also setup, with the following info:
isa-pnp Size: 27816 Used by: 0 Not tainted: [3c509]
Now I read something about a Red Hat system on Google that had similar
issues, and the response was to remove isa-pnp, but when I try to it
says it is busy.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Gianfranco
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