On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Dan Brown wrote:
> I'm installing Mandrake 6.0 on a Compaq Presario 4504, and I'm running
> into two problems which are rather distressing. In short, it won't
> communicate with the NIC or the modem. First the NIC problem. At
> system boot, it says it's bringing up eth0, and it gives a green "OK"
> indicating that this was completed successfully. Other services
> (apache, samba, etc.) also start normally. However, when I run
> ifconfig, the NIC isn't there. It's a PCI NE2000 clone based on a
> Realtek chipset. /var/log/messages shows
>
> Sep 17 12:39:54 ffj network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded
> Sep 17 12:39:57 ffj kernel: eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0xfca0, IRQ 0, \
> 00:60:67:4A:03:E5.
>
>
> But, when I try running "ifup eth0", I get
>
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
> SIOCADDRT: Network is down
it can't get irq0, specify it in your conf.modules 'options ne irq=X'
> I also tried it with a Linksys tulip-based card, with almost identical
> results. I see that the kernel reports irq0, which I suspect may be a
> problem, but I don't know what to do about it. Other than that, I don't
> have a clue. What else should I check?
My latest run in with a tulip card (dlink 5 something) the card wanted irq
128 we all got a nice laugh out of it untill the supplied util disk
couldn't change it off of 128.
> Second problem, the modem. It's an ISA, hardware modem with DIP
> switches and jumpers to select resource settings, or it can also be
> configured for PnP. First, I tried it PnP, since I didn't want to go
> digging for the manual to find how to set the switches. pnpdump found
> it just fine, so I edited isapnp.conf to select com3, io 3e8, irq 5, and
> ran isapnp. It responded with a fatal error allocating 8 bytes of io at
> that address. Per /proc/ioports, 3e8 was free, and /proc/interrupts
> indicated that irq 5 was also free. Isapnp gave the same error with
> every other selection I tried.
>
> Thus foiled, I found the manual, and set the modem to com2, irq 3. The
> system saw the com port when it booted, but it didn't work properly. I
> could open minicom, but the modem took about 20 seconds to respond to
> "AT." I tried setting the modem to com3, irq 5, again using the
> switches, and had the same result. Normally, I've found that this comes
> from an incorrect irq specification, but that wasn't the case here
> (setserial reported correct information both times). I haven't yet
> tried adding my external modem on the built-in com port. Any ideas on
> this one?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
Hmm sorry i only solve one resource conflict per email ;)
debuging serial ports is one of those hands one trial and error things
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> Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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