[ale] RH 8.0 won't recognize my NIC

[James P. Kinney III]

There may be an interrupt conflict. If the card was made at the same
time as the old clunky box was, it may need to have some jumpers moved
around. If it's an early PCI card, many were not auto-play jobs and had
to have an eeprom set with a (usually DOS) program. 

It may be easier to grab a pair of $10 (or $2 used) cheap nics (RealTek
work OK, not speed demons but great for DSL sharing) and install them
one at a time so you can easily get the MAC address and IO ports for
correctly designating which is internal and external nic.

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:22, Cameron Childress wrote:
> Relative Linux newbie here - so go easy on me...  I'm attempting to install
> and configure RH 8.0 as a simple Firewall/NAT/DHCP for my DSL connection and
> small home network.  The machine I have installed it on is an old Packard
> Hell Pentium I, and everything seems to have gone fine with the
> installation, except for one thing...  I can't for the life of me get it to
> recognize the network card(s).  Right now I have taken out the second one
> and am attempting to get it to recognize one card.
> 
> What I have done so far:
> 
> /etc/modules.conf has the line "alias eth0 natsemi" - which should be the
> driver module for the card, a PCI Netgear FA311 10/100.
> 
> I've also run netconfig, and have configured the network settings.
> 
> I'm in the process of pouring over a couple of Linux books and have found a
> few other interesting bits of possibly relevant information.  After running
> "cat /proc/ioports" I found that the system had two entries for the network
> card:
> 
> fc00-fcff : National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet
> Controller
> fc00-fcff : eth0
> 
> I also found that when I ran "less /proc/interrupts", I found entries for
> the mouse, keyboard, etc - but it didn't have any IRQ entries for the NIC at
> all.
> 
> The specific error I get when I restart is:
> 
> Bringing up interface eth0 : Failed to bring up eth0.
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy.
> 
> Anyone have an idea of what might be wrong, or what else I might
> check/try/configure?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Cameron
> 
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