I tried changing (in the BIOS), the eth0 to IRQ 3...and when I went back to linux, ide0 had changed with it...is there some other way to change IRQs then? thx -Dave -----Original Message----- From: surge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update: from the looks of that, your IDE0 and ETH0 are both on IRQ 11. Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Hey all, > Well after a couple weeks, I still can't get the ethernet card working. > Here's my update: > Running: > win98se and Mandrake 7.0 > 3com 3c905B-TX (3C90x family) > > Suggestion from subscriber: > the module for a 905b is 3c59x (insmod 3c59x) > Result: > ./3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy > > Suggestion from subscriber: > insmod 3c90x > Result: > ./3c90x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy > > (I'm fairly sure there wasn't a 3c905b or 3c905 module...but if there was, I > tried it and recieved the same result.) > > Suggestion from subscriber: > ifconfig > Result: > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inetaddr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > Suggestion from subscriber: > ps -ef | grep dhcp do you see an entry like: root 283 1 0 17:41 ? > 00:00:00 > /sbin/dhcpcd eth0 -h localhost.localdomain > Result: > no > > Suggestion from subscriber: > check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 does it contain an > entry like: BOOTPROTO=dhcp > Result: > yes > > Suggestion: > cat /proc/pci > Result: > *snip* > Bus 0, device 11, function 0: > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 100). > Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max > Lat=10. > I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc01]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xea000000]. > *snip* > (no other devices on 11) > > Suggestion: > cat /proc/interrupts > Result: > CPU0 > 0: 36348 XT-PIC timer > 1: 991 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 10: 0 XT-PIC emu10k1 > 11: 98184 XT-PIC ide0 > 12: 6340 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse > 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu > 14: 5 XT-PIC ide2 > NMI: 0 > > Suggestion: > cat /proc/ioports > Result: > 0000-001f : dma1 > 0020-003f : pic1 > 0040-005f : timer > 0060-006f : keyboard > 0070-007f : rtc > 0080-008f : dma page reg > 00a0-00bf : pic2 > 00c0-00df : dma2 > 00f0-00ff : fpu > 01f0-01f7 : ide2 > 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) > 03c0-03df : vga+ > 03f6-03f6 : ide2 > c400-c41f : emu10k1 > c800-c807 : emu10k1 joystick > cc00-cc7f : eth0 > d000-d007 : ide0 > d802-d802 : ide0 > f000-f007 : ide2 > f008-f00f : ide3 > > > Questions: > How can I tell if it's PnP?(whatever that is.) > Can you copy/paste text from a term window? > It seems like there is no conflict...so what is this Device or resource busy > stuff? > What's emu10k1? (under interrupts?) > > Thanks all...sorry for the spam, but I just want to get this inet connection > up (on the plus side, each day I'm saving more and more emails from the list > I wanna try out once the connection IS up=)) > -Dave