Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Howdy,
>
>
> I just installed RH 6.2 on a new box with a good ol' Linksys LNE100TX NIC (uses
>tulip module). The installer failed to detect the NIC at all, so I'm trying to add it
>manually. I did as much as I could with linuxconf but I upon startup, during init
>starting, I see the eth0 error "can't insmod <path/to/modules/>tulip.o: device or
>resource busy.
>
> I get the same errors if I try it by hand. strace didn't tell me anything useful.
>
> I'm wondering if I have the Plug-N-play OS option, in the BIOS, set to the wrong
>thing. For Linux is plug-n-play OS supposed to be on or off?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> JW
>
I had this problem in a box with dual nics from different companies.
The problem was that conf.modules had the aliases for the two nics reversed.
PnP should be off.
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