[wplug] Realtek 8139 PCI card

[Doug Green]

Hey-
I haven't seen all of these postings, so I have no idea what the background 
of this problem is. However, I DO know that SIOCSFFLAGS warning WELL in 
conjunction with ethernet cards. I just suffered through this myself- here is 
my advice:

Go to your bios and turn OFF Plug  & Play. Double and triple check this 
step!! 

When you reboot, try ifconfig (as root) without any options and make sure 
that you have two entries: one for lo (loopback) and one for eth0. BOTH 
entries must contain the words "UP" AND "RUNNING". If they don't have "UP" 
and "RUNNING" then something is still wrong. 

If 'ifconfig' only brings up lo, then try 'ifconfig eth0 up'. And then retry 
the plain ifconfig to check that both are up and running. 

As far as your modules go, did you recently recompile without doing "make 
modules" AND "make modules install"? As long as you have the driver you need 
for your card, and you can either "insmod" or "modprobe" the correct driver, 
you should be ok. 

AGAIN- I JUST had this same problem with a tulip based ethernet card. CHECK 
YOUR BIOS SETTINGS and reboot before you try anything else (like manually 
setting the IP).

Doug



On Monday 09 April 2001 02:16, you wrote:
> > > [root at William /root]# ifconfig eth0 90.0.0.3
> > > SIOCSFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >
> > SIOCSFFLAGS usually signals an IRQ problem.
> >
> > Looking at /proc/interrupts should tell you what IRQ's linux currently
> > has configured.
>
> doing "cat /proc/interrupts" gives me numbers and some data, but neither
> rtl8139 nor eth0 are listed.
>
> also, sometimes when I do "modprobe rtl8139," I get: "Note:
> /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/modules.dep"
> Does that matter?
>
> - Will
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