From: Andrew <ald2@arrakis.es>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ethernet nic install
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:30:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <410F692C.3070303@arrakis.es> (raw)
Hello,
I am having trouble trying to install an rtl8139 nic on a 486 running
Slackware 9.0.
From dmesg:
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Enabling device 00:03.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:03.0. Please try
using pci=biosirq.
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc1821000, (hw address), IRQ 0
eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
...
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002)
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002)
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002)
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002)
lspci lists the nic OK. The module is loaded OK. ifconfig -a shows the
interface exists, hw addresss is correct, but no ip address. Trying to
bring it up or give it an ip address with ifconfig gets the reply:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
I've never heard of this pci=biosirq business. If I thought it might
help I would be delighted to 'use it', but where and how? BTW, this same
nic works fine in other machines.
Google turns up about 3,000 people asking what pci=biosirq means. One
reply pointed me to the kernel-documentation. It seems I should add
append="pci=biosirq" in lilo.conf. This has made no difference except
that I now get the following message in dmesg:
PCI: Error b1 when fetching IRQ routing table.
Any insights?
TIA,
Andrew
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next reply other threads:[~2004-08-03 10:30 UTC|newest]
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2004-08-03 10:30 Andrew [this message]
2004-08-03 19:20 ` ethernet nic install pa3gcu
2004-08-04 16:49 ` Andrew
2004-08-04 18:41 ` pa3gcu
2004-08-05 10:49 ` Andrew
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2004-08-05 14:37 pa3gcu
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