Rino Mardo writes: > So I checked everywhere (HOWTOs, #Linux, FAQs) and couldn't find out why I > can't use my 3C509B NIC even after recompiling the kernel. So I thought I'd > use the NE2000 nic since it is loaded with the kernel by default. Guess > what? Though it says 8390 loaded during the boot process (but it doesn't > appear in dmesg) I still get: > > SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device > eth0: unknown interface > > I have setup my NE2000 to be IRQ=5 and IO=0x300. Please help!!
Don't overlook an IRQ (or base address) conflict. My NIC was programmed on IRQ 3 when I changed motherboards. All of a sudden, it stopped working. After chasing this problem a while, I realized that the NIC and serial port ttyS1 were conflicting. I turned off the serial port and re-programmed the NIC to a different IRQ. And all is well in Linux land... -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.-
