On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tal Amir wrote:
> hi,
>
> this is mandrake 8.1, smp kernel (pre-compiled) right after a clean
> install. my eth0 is intel 10\100 on board, that uses eepro100 to load. it
> seems that the module loads ok at boot time, but fails to ifup the device
> :
Is this an smp machine?
If not: why do you use an SMP kernel?
>
> #ifconfig eth0 up
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
> same happends with ifup eth0 (which is prety much the same)
>
> i cant paste any of the logs here since i cant access that machine from
> the network, but chaecking the logs didnt tell me much about what went
> wrong anyway.
Did you see any message about a problem with the network adapetr?
>
> from searching some groups on google, i saw that this was a known bug with
> smp kernel's (same error happened on the same machine with RH7.2 btw..)
>
> i know the device is working, because i did the RH install from ftp using
> it,
IIRC redhat uses a slightly dfferent kernel on the install floppy.
What kernel do you use, BTW? ('uname -r')
> so this is not a hardware problem.
How do you know that the "device" is working properly?
Is there eth0?
'ifconfig eth0'
Is the support for the network adapter loaded from a module?
If so: is this module loaded?
BTW: you need to upgrade that kernel, anyway (see the updates section of
your distro).
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