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Old 02-17-2002, 12:34 PM   #16
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try to manually add your tulip with insmod:

insmod tulip

also, was the tulip in your modules.conf uncommented.. or not ?
 
Old 02-17-2002, 12:38 PM   #17
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It was uncommented. I just did 'insmod tulip' (I've done it before too).
I still can't do /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart (it hangs at Bringing up interface eth0' :/

Okay, now I have it so that it does say 'Bringing up interface eth0' again (IRQ conflicts, I had eth0 set for IRQ 11). I think I had it set for IRQ 11 on purpose 'cause I found out that's what it should be, but heh, I know nothing about IRQ numbers

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Old 02-17-2002, 12:55 PM   #18
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if your getting the eth0 coming up.. you should be able to get online again.. and it should give you output with the ifconfig eth0 too..
 
Old 02-17-2002, 12:56 PM   #19
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Oops, sorry. I meant that it's displaying 'Bringing up interface eth0 [failed]' again.

Okay, weird. I just did /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start and after a hanging a while at 'Bringing up interface eth0' it said 'OK' and everything worked. Just to test I then did /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart and it failed.

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Old 02-17-2002, 01:11 PM   #20
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could be that IRQ conflict.. try reading this site for some pointers and stuff to try and see what happens: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethern...O-9.html#ss9.1
 
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Hmmm...I read the the page you supplied. I'll admit that a lot of it went right through me, but I understand the 'options' part. However, I have not a clue where I can get the IRQ/addresses/etc for my card in order to add the 'options' line. Short of reinstalling windows and getting the IRQ that way, do you have any suggestions?

Thanks again for your help.
 
Old 02-17-2002, 01:39 PM   #22
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you can view the interrupts from the /proc/interrupts by doing a

cat /proc/interrupts

and this should list what IRQ's are being used at that time..
 
Old 02-17-2002, 01:42 PM   #23
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After doing cat /proc/interrupts I get a bunch of stuff, but for 11 I get this:

11: 17697 XT-PIC usb-ohci, EMU10K1, eth0

How do I fix this? I don't know anything about IRQs. Sorry for my newbiness
 
Old 02-17-2002, 01:52 PM   #24
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alright, if its not working on 11, you can try passing the arguments to try and use another IRQ, like maybe 9 or 3.. or whatever other IRQ is open.. In most cases I see ethernets using IRQ 9 or 3.. well from my experience.

so you can try adding this in your lilo.conf if your using lilo:

ether=9, 0x300, 0

or test it first at the lilo prompt before making changes to test it.
 
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I'm using RedHat's default bootloader, GRUB. I'll test it out, though I don't know where to put it in grub.conf if it works. I'm guessing at the end, but I don't know

Grub's command line doesn't recognize the 'ether' command

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Old 02-17-2002, 02:08 PM   #26
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Well, I am not that familiar with grub and couldn't tell you how to pass that argument or edit grub to use it.. sorry about that. But somehow if you can change the IRQ should determine if that is the culprit or not with it being flaky and not initializing at bootup..
 
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Ok, thanks. I'm gonna try changing over to LILO when I get home for work (4 1/2 hours). thanks a ton for your help
 
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No problem.. if you get lilo loaded and still have problems, I'll be here most likely, or anyone else might be able to help..
 
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OK got LILO working. When I goto text mode in LILO and enter 'linux ether=9,0x300,0 ' 'Bringing up interface eth0' still says failed and when it finally goes into linux 'cat /proc/interrupts' doesn't show anything at 9.
 
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and this is at startup again it gives the eth0 failed.. ?? what if you try to ifconfig up again ??
 
  


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