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Sneak
03-09-2001, 10:06 PM
I'm brand new to linux...I am running red hat ver 7 and am having a problem installing the driver rtl8139.o that came with the installation. It gives me a "Device or resource busy". Is there something I am doing wrong? I am using the command insmod rtl8139 as root. Experienced user please help! :confused:
rod
03-09-2001, 10:41 PM
I am not experienced but will try. Get into your systems bios and turn off plug and play.

Regards,
Rod
Sneak
03-09-2001, 10:45 PM
I have no plug and play option in my bios....Any more ideas?
rod
03-09-2001, 10:57 PM
Have you tried modprobe before using insmod?
Sneak
03-09-2001, 11:07 PM
No, is it anything like lsmod? What does it do?
rod
03-09-2001, 11:29 PM
This explains modprobe far better than I can.

check it out (http://www.linux.gr/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.gz)

regards,
Rod
rod
03-10-2001, 12:16 AM
Hey Sneak,

To run modprobe all you have to do, as root in your favourite terminal window:

modprobe rtl8139

Post any errors.

Regards,
Rod

[ 09 March 2001: Message edited by: rod ]
Tyr-7BE
03-10-2001, 12:54 AM
Either that, or type "modprobe eth0" (assuming you have only one network card). If those don't work, type "dmesg | more" and tell us what it says about eth0...more specifically, the IRQ of eth0. It it's zero, then there's a problem. If it's not, then there should be a command to get you going.