On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:43:32PM -0800, James Rende wrote: > Folks. > > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > Device is not ready or in use. > > I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Kernel 2.2.17 >
What does 'lsmod' output and does 'dmesg' say anything about the NIC? Are you absolutely sure this is the correct chipset too? > The card is a DLink DFE-530TX+ > > My hardware, (please don't laugh to loudly) is an > older Via chipset bios, AMD K6 2/450. You would be laughing at me, I only have a Celeron 433 :-) > > The card is functioning in windows, so I know it isn't > bad hardware. > > Does anyone have a solution or suggestion I can try to > get Debian running online? Well, I have had the strangest problems with NIC's sometimes. The machine that I'm writing this from right now has two NIC's (one realtek 8139, the other is a 3COM 905C). However, they would not work in _any_ OS unless I switched the order in the slots. If worst comes to worst, try putting it in a different slot, and when the table of IRQ's shows at boot up, pause it, and check to make sure it has an IRQ too. Another thing that I find helps on some systems is toggling the option of Plug and Play in the BIOS setup, ie. if it's on, try turning it off. There also seems to be another realtek 8139 driver called 8139too in the Linux kernel, I have never used this, but maybe it might solve your particular problem. > > Thanks. > > James > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
