Re: problem with Etherlink III and redhat 8

> > I am trying to get a 3com Etherlink III ISA card working with Redhat
> > 8. It did not detect it during installation and I don't get a link
> > light when pluggin it into a switch. I have added the lines alias eth1
> > 3c509 to modules.conf. When trying to bring up the card it gives the
> > error:  
> > 
> > SIOCIFFSFLAGS: Device or resource busy
> 
> Does the driver load and detect the card?  You can run 'dmesg' and
> 'lsmod' to see if the driver is loaded.

When doing as lsmod the drivers appears in the list and 'dmesg' displays:

divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, address  00 60 8c f1 f1 7f, IRQ 15.
3c509.c:1.18c 1Mar2002 [email protected]
http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html

so it seems it has found it. It just won't bring the interface up.
 
Alex