[olug] Problems with setting up NICs

[Don Kauffman]

Hello,

I’ve run into a problem trying to install two DLink DFE-530TX+ NICs w/
the RealTek Chipset rtl8139 on my Red Hat linux box.  It doesn’t seem to
be able to pick up driver module rtl8139 at boot  I’ve done linusconf w/
netconf & netconfig. I’ve tried installing this manually using modprobe.
I’ve tried booting hooked up and not hooked up to the net via my cable
modem. I get the same messages  every time. So I ask, what am I missing?
I’m showing  in order, my lilo,conf, the relevant boot messages, the
modprobe messages and modules.conf. The box is a HP Vectra 500 with a
Pentium 133 mhz ,80 megs of ram and a PCI bus.. As far as I know from
CMOS setup, there shouldn’t be any IRQ clashes but I can’t swear to
that. I’d appreciate anyone's thoughts on what I might try next. If you
need different info to help diagnose the problem, let me know and I'll
post that, too. I'd like to get this figured out so I can start using
linux for firewall and file server.

Thanks!!!

Don Kauffman

Lilo.conf  looks like this.

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
 label=linux
 read-only
 root=/dev/hda1

append="eth=0,0,eth0,eth=0,0,eth1"

Messages from the bootup:
.
.
Oct 25 09:18:09 dkauffman2443 network: Setting network parameters:
succeeded
Oct 25 09:18:10 dkauffman2443 network: Bringing up interface lo:
succeeded
Oct 25 09:18:11 dkauffman2443 insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/rtl8139.o: invalid parameter parm_irq
Oct 25 09:18:11 dkauffman2443 ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization.
Oct 25 09:18:11 dkauffman2443 network: Bringing up interface eth0:
failed
Oct 25 09:18:11 dkauffman2443 insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/rtl8139.o: invalid parameter parm_irq
Oct 25 09:18:11 dkauffman2443 ifup: Delaying eth1 initialization.
Oct 25 09:18:11 dkauffman2443 network: Bringing up interface eth1:
failed
.
.

Messages from modprobe when I use that in an attempt to install the
module directly with /etc/modules.conf::

/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/rtl8139.o: invalid parameter parm_irq
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/rtl8139.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/rtl8139.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/rtl8139.o: insmod rtl8139 failed

Modules.conf  looks like this:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 rtl8139
alias eth1 rtl8139
options rtl8139 irq=5,6



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