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Stanley56
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 Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:24 pm Post subject: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy |
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Okay, now I have something really strange.
I'm having trouble setting up my network card (3c509)
the error message is:
| Code: | * Bringing eth0 up (192.168.10.1)...
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy [ !! ] |
now i've been digging a bit and a budy noticed that my irq sharing wasn't enabled 
| Code: | ...
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
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so far, not really a problem 
but when i want to compile the option in my kernel (gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r14), it isn't shown in the menu (make menuconfig, under Processor type and features --->)
and when i look at the config itself, i get:
| Code: | | CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y |
so what is hapening? and if it is set to yes, why isn't it compiled into my kernel?
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Stanley56
Those IRQ sharing options are for two differnt aspects of the system CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y allows The IDE ports to share interrupts, which on the PCI bus is OK.
| Quote: | | Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled |
means that serial ports are not permitted to share interrupts, mostly because they don't work properly that way.
Anyway, none of this relates to your network problem.
Please post your ifconfig output, your lspci output and your lsmod output.
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Stanley56
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for you reply...
ifconfig
| Code: | lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3700 (3.6 Kb) TX bytes:3700 (3.6 Kb)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:80.200.73.188 P-t-P:80.200.73.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:220 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:240844 (235.1 Kb) TX bytes:17211 (16.8 Kb) |
lspci
| Code: | 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. KT7/KT7-RAID/KT7A/KT7A-RAID Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: e4000000-e5ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-dfffffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 0000
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at dc00 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
00:0d.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem 56k Data+Fax+Voice+Dsvd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at e000 [size=8]
I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 |
lsmod
| Code: | Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 4452 -
zlib_deflate 20984 -
zlib_inflate 20900 -
bsd_comp 5060 -
speedtch 13392 -
nvidia 4819028 -
pppoatm 4388 -
atm 36532 - |
I thought it was kernel related because when I boot with my 2.4 kernel it comes up just fine...
Thanks in advance 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Stanley56,
OK - I misread your first post. You have an ISA 3c509 installed.
ISA stuff can be trying to make work. You need to know the IRQ number, I/O Port and DMA (if any) and pass the info to the 3c509 module when it loads.
Do you have the 3c509 driver built as a module, or into the kernel?
Its not in your lsmod, so if its modular, its not yet loaded.
If your NIC has been used with Windows, it will be stuck in Plug and Pray mode. You need the DOS utility from 3com to configure it manually before you load the module with the correct params.
If you can't find the utility, I'm sure I have it somewhere.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | Do you have the 3c509 driver built as a module, or into the kernel?
Its not in your lsmod, so if its modular, its not yet loaded. |
Its compiled into my kernel. 
| NeddySeagoon wrote: | | You need to know the IRQ number, I/O Port and DMA (if any) and pass the info to the 3c509 module when it loads. |
Where can I get this information, and how do I pass it over to 3c509 when its compiled in my kernel?
So if I get it right I should give it a static IRQ for both win (using the 3com utility) as lin (?). But how can I know if the IRQ isn't used by another card?
Thx for you help
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Stanley56,
You can pass options to built in modules by adding them to the kernel command line in your grub.conf. This makes testing take a long time because you need to reboot every time. I reccomend that you rebuild your kernel with the 3c509 as a module. Then you can modprobe it in and out as fast as you can type.
To avoid a clash of IRQs I/O ports and DMAs, you must go into your BIOS and reserve the required resources for use by the ISA bus. Then windows will not try to reallocate them either. To make life easy, first look to see what resources windows uses for the NIC and use those. Windows may still work that way with the resources statically allocated, or yo umay need to force windows to use the statically allocated resources.
Linux will also respect these reserved resources.
Look at the files in /proc to see what is currently used.
/proc/interrups, /proc/ioports and /proc/dma
Now set the NIC up with the 3com utility for the IRQ, I/O and so on. Set the media type manually too, if you have a card that can connect to more than one type of network cable.
With 3c509 build as a module | Code: | | /sbin/modinfo 3c509 |
will tell you what module parameters 3c5409 takes, or you can read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/3c509.txt
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry for the late responds, been away for a week
Tried changing irq in bios, all i can do is reserve an irq for isa
and apperantly the 3com util tries to turn of pnp but i think windows eneables it again
Isn't there a way i can make it work without touching win/bios. I imagine that the problem still is in the kernel config cuz it works with the 2.4 wich was genkernel compiled.
There must be a way to get IRQ sharing to be eneabled...
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Stanley56,
Does this box have to dual boot ?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Euhm yes, (i'm not the only one who uses it)
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Stanley56,
Thats a bummer. You have three choices:-
1. Make ISA Plug and Pray work in Linux, so its like Windows.
2. Make the IRQ etc assignments static in Windows, so its the same as Linux.
3. Use a PCI NIC (that could involve spending money) so thats a poor third.
I've never had to get Linux Plug and Pray working, my oler boxes are fully static everything (386SX).
I can help with 2. but its a long time since Iv'e done it.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:06 am Post subject: |
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Yes
ISA Plug and Pray, that did the trick.
Why didn't i think of that in the first place 
Thanks man
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