Re: Network card found but not configured with Etch / 2.6 kernel
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:08 -0400, Ken McCord wrote:
> Hope someone out there can help me with this one, cause I'm stumped.
>
> Have an IBM NetVista 6341-64U system (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, onboard
> Intel Ethernet adapter) that when Etch boots on it, will detect an
> installed network card, but when networking is configured to start, will
> not start it. Here's the output of some commands from a fresh boot:
>
> dmesg | grep eth0
> e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfebff000, irq 5, MAC addr 00:02:55:25:65:FB
>
> ifconfig eth0 up
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>
> Similar messages showing the network card being detected at boot, but not
> configured will also occur if I disable the onboard Intel Ethernet adapter,
> and install a PCI network card (I've tried a 3Com and a tulip-based card).
>
> This box had previously been used as an IPCop firewall running a 2.4
> kernel, so I know the hardware works. If I put the hd in another system,
> networking works properly. I've tried the noapic and nolapic boot options,
> as well as updating to the last BIOS release, but to no effect.
>
> Any ideas?
Try to boot with the "acpi=off" and/or the "pci=routeirq" option.
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