Tom,
It looks to me as if Winshit is messing around with your interupts, and for Linux is a non Plug&Pray OS Linux gets a bit confused after you have gone to Win$. A part of the sollution might be to tell the bios of your system that you are running a non-Plug&Play OS, this way the bios sets all the interupts and Win$ is not allowed to change them.
Then, the Etherlink III 509b is not a Plug and Play card and it comes with a disk with a dos tool to set the interupts and the Cable type etc.Run this tool to make sure that the card is set to a free interupt. Com 2 is on IRQ 3 most of the time so don't use that one. 9, 10, 11 and 12 might very well be free but you said something about USB (Univ. Ser. Bus) and PCI so it could also be that the PCI bus resides on IRQ 10 (PCI adapters don't requere all an own interupt, the ofter share 1 among several PCI devices).
When you have made sure that above settings are all done, go back to Linux and look if the probing is done right now. Linux will probebly find the card on it's proper interupt now and it will probebly work. The problem is that the card was at interupt 10 during installation, when windows was started it saw an interupt conflict and started messing around with the adapters.Back in Linux the Nic did not respond anymore.
The math error you found on Interupt 13 is probebly because the K6 is not 100% compatible with the Intel Processors.
Good luck and Greetings,
Jan Hugo Prins
Hermes BBS
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PS: After next friday the adres [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't work anymore.
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Verzonden: donderdag 25 februari 1999 7:53
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Onderwerp: Re: eth0 device or resource busy
I'd like to thank everyone for the help I've recieved so far and let me answer a few questions people have raise.
First my kernel is 2.0.36 and my nic card is a 3com EtherLink III 509b pnp which is used by my schools linux machines and they have found no problems, the only advice they gave me was to update my kernel to the latest release which they have already done so. In the installation I only saw the 3com509 so that is what I chose.
As for the questions posed by Ray, my ifconfig looks perfectly fine and since my card hasn't crashed yet, the message log looks fine. For JH, I don't use DHCP, I got my own IP from my system administrator which which I can use to telnet into my machine from down the hall of my dorm, when my comp works right. For Richard's questions, the easiest answer is it works completely fine, then never works again till I've reinstalled, I've let the problem go for days with no resolve. As for module or not, in my conf.module file it only says alias eth0 3c509 which I guess means it is a module.
Lastly I did find a problem brought up by Ray and Richard. When I look at my card's IRQ in windows, it is set to IRQ 3. Linux says its on ten when I look at /proc/interrupts as well as /proc/net/dev. Windows tells me these are inuse by USB, my IRQ holder (?), and for SCI IRQ. My knowledge of hardware is not my best, but if that means scisi, I have no devices of that nature. Now that I see this IRQ. The only device I saw on under linux was my ethernet card. Now that I guess thats the problem, how do I change it. Can I do just by editing certain files?
Thankyou so much, I might not be able to read your replies for almost a week as I leave for spring break on Friday (ironic as it is snowing this moment). But thankyou so much and I will definately thank you once I return.
Thanks,
Tom
P.S. When I checked my interrupts it also said on 13, math error. I have an AMD K6-2 and see no errors or conflicts under windows.
