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Linksys Ether16 ISA card install problem

I am trying to get a Linksys Ether16 ISA card to install using Redhat 6.1 expert install. I have disabled PnP and set the card to 300/10. I have run the Linksys diagnostics and the card passes just fine. The card is supposed to be NE2000 compatible. When I try to load the NE2000 (ne.o) driver during install (specifying the I/O and IRQ info), I get the message "device or resource busy". I have tried other IRQs (5,11) with the same result. I have powered down between each try. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

dcavanaugh

make sure you are doing a depmod -a somewhere in your startup.

in /etc/conf.modules, you should have lines like this:
alias eth0 ne
options ne IRQ=10 IO=0x300

If that doesn't work, describe the new situation. Post the results of the ifconfig and dmesg commands.

biard

Also, check your BIOS. You should go to the resource configuration page and select the IRQ you have the Network card set to currently. Change it from "Auto" to "Legacy ISA". You may have to change it to accept manual entries first, before it will display a list of irq's. Usually this is found under Plug and Play BIOS options or something along those lines.

dcavanaugh

Oops... lowercase on "io" and "irq". I'm not sure, but it probably matters.

sumawuscha

Also make sure that no other adapter (eg video)
uses this resources. (cat /proc/ioports, interrupts).
Dis you compile kernel module and ne2000
support into your kernel?

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jmaissel

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KROM rules!!

It worked perfectly. This was a thoroughly frustrating problem for me. Thanks a million (or 75, as it were).

I could not have done this without the experts exchange. KROM, did you figure this out by trial and error? Did you look at the proc file system?

Thanks again! 8^)

KROM

happy i could help :)

this problem took me a long time to solve too...
i´ve tried a lot of configs but the
network card was always "busy"

finally i got the answer
here at experts-exchange, too.
nobody else had any idea :)

good luck with your further actions :)

[KROM]