On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:08 -0400, Ken McCord wrote: > Hope someone out there can help me with this one, cause I'm stumped. > > Have an IBM NetVista 6341-64U system (1.0 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, onboard > Intel Ethernet adapter) that when Etch boots on it, will detect an > installed network card, but when networking is configured to start, will > not start it. Here's the output of some commands from a fresh boot: > > dmesg | grep eth0 > e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfebff000, irq 5, MAC addr 00:02:55:25:65:FB > > ifconfig eth0 up > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > > Similar messages showing the network card being detected at boot, but not > configured will also occur if I disable the onboard Intel Ethernet adapter, > and install a PCI network card (I've tried a 3Com and a tulip-based card). > > This box had previously been used as an IPCop firewall running a 2.4 > kernel, so I know the hardware works. If I put the hd in another system, > networking works properly. I've tried the noapic and nolapic boot options, > as well as updating to the last BIOS release, but to no effect. > > Any ideas?
Try to boot with the "acpi=off" and/or the "pci=routeirq" option. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
