Re: help needed with SiS900 network interface

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:00:47 -0800 (PST) Tanu Shankar Bhatnagar
<tanushankar yahoo com> imparted to us:
> Guys,
> 
> Trying to set up my ethernet card on RedHat 7. My modules.conf files
> has
> an entry as follows:
> alias eth0 sis900
> 
> I checked the startup message with dmesg command and found that it
> said:
> eth0: Error EEPROM read: 0
> 
> I also tried 'insmod sis900' and got the following message:
> .../sis900.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> 
> Something is obviously wrong .. could somebody help me in getting my
> network interface up?

Try "rmmod sis900" followed by "insmod sis900" and see what happens. If
it gets installed and fails, it's still seen as being used, even if
nothing has an active hold on it. I used to have to tapdance around
using rc.local and that method to get a couple of boards to work.

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