I am having trouble trying to install an rtl8139 nic on a 486 running Slackware 9.0.
From dmesg:
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Enabling device 00:03.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:03.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc1821000, (hw address), IRQ 0
eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
...
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002)
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002)
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002)
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002)
lspci lists the nic OK. The module is loaded OK. ifconfig -a shows the interface exists, hw addresss is correct, but no ip address. Trying to bring it up or give it an ip address with ifconfig gets the reply:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
I've never heard of this pci=biosirq business. If I thought it might help I would be delighted to 'use it', but where and how? BTW, this same nic works fine in other machines.
Google turns up about 3,000 people asking what pci=biosirq means. One reply pointed me to the kernel-documentation. It seems I should add append="pci=biosirq" in lilo.conf. This has made no difference except that I now get the following message in dmesg:
PCI: Error b1 when fetching IRQ routing table.
Any insights? TIA, Andrew
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