musical devices

[jmelton]

I was unable to access my Zip drive in Debian, and eventually figured out that it was because I had kernel version 2.2.20-idepci, which doesn't include the necessary module (ppa) to support such a device. So, I switched to the standard 2.2.20 kernel. Problem solved.

Unfortunately, when I run Debian with the 2.2.20 kernel, my network card doesn't work. I noticed that the tulip module that drove my network card wasn't loaded, so I tried to load it, and got an error message to the effect that the device was busy.

Here are the modules that get loaded when I boot under 2.2.20-idepci: parport-pc, lp, parport, tulip, pci-scan, nbd, af_packet.

Under 2.2.20, it's: parport_pc, lp, parport, nbd, af_packet, lockd, sunrpc, vfat, parport_probe, unix.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[mdwatts]

Usually a 'device is busy' would indicate a resource conflict.

Do you have PnP OS disabled in the bios? Although that may not be the problem since the tulip module loads fine with the other kernel.