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Old 01-17-2006, 11:27 AM   #1
obulpathi
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Device or resource busy error

I am using Linux (Fedora Core 3 and SUSE10.0) on my laptop (compaq presario M2202TU). Ethernet card is not getting activated.
When i try to avtivate it it is showing error message : " SIOCSIFFLAGS : Device or resource busy"

what should i do?
 
Old 01-20-2006, 04:03 AM   #2
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Maybe its trying to get an IP address or other information.
 
  


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