Topic: Network problem with 6.0 version

[Franco Milazzo]

I just installed the 6.0 version on a new server with two ethernet card (Realtek) that are recognized by the system, the install process works fine and the system goes up but the ethernet interfaces do not work. I got no errors, the eth0 and the eth1 are just down, I'm not a Linux expert, I just tried to use ifconfig to see if the adapter are configured but the only one present is the loopback.
Any hint?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ciao,
         Franco

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[rick]

have you tried swapping ethernet cables? it's very easy to get eth0 and eth1 the wrong way around when both cards are the same.

[Franco Milazzo]

Yes, to avoid any doubt I changed one of the card with a different one, the new one is recognized by the system too, the install process end and than nothing.

But I got one more info, for any modification that I try to make using ifconfig I get this error:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

then I saw that there is the same error on the boot.log when the system try to bring up the interface.

Franco

[Graeme Fleming]

Hmm, sounds like you may have a resource conflict on the PCI bus - make sure the BIOS settings for the PCI bus are set to auto on each slot (if configurable) and that Plug & Play is set to yes & then the set update ESCD to yes before saving and rebooting.

This should force the rewrite of the hardware data into non-volatile memory.  Linux can then access this data on boot and as PnP is set then prod the hardware itself and determine the correct setup for those items on the PCI bus.

It may also be the case that one card may be a bus master card and swaping the cards around in the slots will allow everything to play nice.

HTH

[Franco Milazzo]

Thank you Graeme, not it works fine. I'm having some problem connecting the external interface to a CISCO catalyst but I think it is just a configuration problem of the interface.

Thanks again.

Ciao,
        Franco