According to tom: While burning my CPU.
>
> For some reason, usually after about three days, after instaling and
> configuring linux to use the internet via my schools network, the
> internet won't work any more. If I use telnet, it tells me that the
> host lookup failed and netscape can't find any server. When I boot
> up or shutdown, I see a message saying my eth0 "device or
> resource is busy". Looking at netcfg, it tells me that it is inactive
> and activating it returns a message that initializing it will be
> delayed. I've had to reinstal at least three times now.
You say after about 3 days it wont work, does this mean it works
"sometimes".?
You say;
When I boot up or shutdown, I see a message saying my eth0 "device or
resource is busy".
That message would be generated by a misconfiguration of one of the netwrok
scripts, OR modprobe cant insert the module for your ethernet device, OR the
kernel with ethernet inclusion cant locate the ethernet card at the places
its told to look.
Ah!, now while i am writing this message i just received new mail a reply to
your mail from Ray, now he asks you to check a few things, which i would
have done also, what i think is that you have a PnP ethernet card which is
possably being attached to an IRQ which is already in use.
BTW; there is NO need to keep on reinstalling anything because your ethernet
device does not work, configuration is the problem here.
I dont know how 5.2 compares to 5.0 init scripts, but check that you have
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/netwrok-scripts configured
properly and "please" include details of what sort of card you have, what
support, ie in the kernel or defined as a module, if its a module do you
have an entery for "eth0" in /etc/conf.modules as;
alias eth0 smc-ultra <- thats my card, yours may vary of course.
You could also define the IRQ and IO address in this file for "modprobe"
use, but considering we dont know what you have we cant give accurate
answers.
> Today was a real kick in the pants as I added no new software and
> it died in hours. How do I fix this problem and secondly keep it
> from reoccuring in the future?
>
> Tom
> Using Mandrake 5.2
>
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Regards Richard.
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