Hi all,
I am looking for someone to help me figure out the problem of installing two netcards in my system. Please don't blame me first, in fact, I have searched and read the similar posts in this forum but couldn't find the solution at last.
I am working with a very old server(HP5183-2112 A-63, with ISA slots) which was successfully installed redhat 9. Initially, only one netcard(VIA VT860100A rhine-II PCI) was working in the system, everything is fine. However, now I would like to install another netcard(Realtex RTL-8029) but it fails to boot up both devices
SIOCSIFFLAGS:
Device or resource busy
Failed to bring up eth0
SIOCSIFFLAGS:
Device or resource busy
Failed to bring up eth1
In the previous posts of the similiar questions, some people suggest to turn off PNP in bios
or turn off Kuduz. Unfortunately, I found the bios doesn't support switching of PNP. I also tried to turn off kuduz but still no good. Some one said they need the following information for the problem.
1) $ cat /proc/interrupts
Code:
CPU0
0: 35500 XT-PCI timer
1: 107 XT-PCI keyboard
2: 0 XT-PCI cascade
8: 1 XT-PCI rtc
12: 30 XT-PCI ps/2
14: 5258 XT-PCI ide0
NMI 0
ERR: 0
2) $ cat /etc/modules.conf
Code:
alias eth1 ne2k-pci
options via-rhine irq=11
options ne2k-pci irq=10
alias eth0 via-rhine
3) $ lsmod
Code:
Module Size used by Not tainted
ne2k-pci 7232 0
8390 8505 0 [ne2k-pci]
via-rhine 15856 0
mii 3926 0 [via-rhine]
4) $ dmesg | grep eth[01]
Code:
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: VIA VT86c100a rhine at 0xfc80 01:50:00:00:01:9a IRQ0
eth0: MII PHY found at address 9, status 0x782d advertising 0xe1 link 41e1
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: realtex RTL_8029 found at 0xfc60, IRQ0 00:41:01:64:dd:68
5) $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network_scripts/ifcfg_eth0
Code:
DEVICE = eth0
ONBOOT = yes
BOOTPROTO = none
IPADDR = 192.168.10.11
NETMASK = 255.255.255.0
GATEWAY = 192.168.10.1
TYPE = Ethernet
USECTL = no
PEERDNS = n0
NETWORK = 192.168.10.0
BROADCAST = 192.168.10.127
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network_scripts/ifcfg_eth0
Code:
DEVICE = eth1
ONBOOT = yes
BOOTPROTO = static
IPADDR = 192.168.10.12
NETMASK = 255.255.255.0
GATEWAY = 192.168.10.1