From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Subject: ethernet nic install Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:30:04 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <410F692C.3070303@arrakis.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs