On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:42:09PM +0000, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm having problems on getting my pcmcia card to work on Debian. > Already compiled RTL8139 as module from kernel and installed pcmcia-cs > tarball. > In my opinion, problem is from rtl8139 module: > > $ insmod rtl8139 > /lib/modules/2.2.14/net/rtl8139.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
check whether your BIOS has a "Windows 9x support" option or some b*llsh*t like that -- and if so, try to disable it. On my ASUS notebook, I initially got the same error, which was solved by disabling said option. This notebook has an *onboard* NIC (same RealTek chip), however, so YMMV... For details on the issue, see Donald Becker's pages, in particular: http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html Cheers -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag www.science-computing.de -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
