have you tried disabling Plug and pray aware OS in BIOS?
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 2:36 PM
Subject: [newbie] Network Card Woes
> Hi list,
>
> I have been running two boxes for a while, one Mandrake and one Windows.
> I use the Mandrake box for www, mail, gateway, etc. and the Windows one
for
> work stuff. I use Samba, port forwarding, with no difficulties at all.
>
> I recently added a new harddrive to my Windows machine, and turned it into
a
> dual boot so I could have a "test" platform for Linux. Unfortunately, I
> can't get my network card running. I also can't get the sound card to
work.
> Is it possible they are in conflict? (I don't really care about the
> sound...)
> I have tried a static assignment (ie. 192.168.0.1, dhcpcd, and pump), but
it
> seems that the error is more basic.
>
> Heres a sample of boot messages, can anyone suggest what to do?
> (I never had this problem on the other box!) I am running a Celeron @
450,
> on a 440Bx motherboard, network card is a generic, SoundCard EssSolo,
> Mandrake 7.2.
>
> Sample below.....
>
> TIA
> Bill
>
> --snip
>
> Nov 18 10:13:17 Bill1 init: Entering runlevel: 5
> Nov 18 10:13:18 Bill1 harddrake: succeeded
> Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 kudzu: succeeded
> Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe:
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o:
> Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
> incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe:
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o failed
> Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 modprobe:
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-es1938.o: insmod snd-card-es1938
> failed
> Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 sound: Loading sound module (snd-card-es1938) failed
> Nov 18 10:13:28 Bill1 network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
> Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded
> Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o:
> invalid parameter parm_irq
> Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization.
> Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
> Nov 18 10:13:29 Bill1 portmap: portmap startup succeeded
>
> --snip
>
>
>
>
