Go into BIOS and give it IRQ 5, then insmod 3c59x and ifup eth0, that
should do it.
Sean
surge wrote:
>
> 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
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