Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:16:14 -0500 | From | Tim Coleman <> | Subject | Re: RTL8139 conflicting with hard drive? |
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:52:08AM -0500, Tim Coleman wrote: > I'm having a problem with a NIC I tried to install this morning. > The chip on the NIC says its an RTL-8139B (it's a generic brand > NIC, and I didn't really need anything fancy). > > When I install the NIC, and try to boot, the kernel complains > about not being able to find the root device. If I take it out, > everything is fine. I'm using kernel version 2.4.1, and my > motherboard is an Asus A7V. > > I already have one RTL-8139B NIC installed, and it's just fine. > > I also noticed that the kernel seemed to detect it as an IDE > controller, because two more IDE devices showed up in the boot > messages. > > What could cause this? More importantly, what's a good remedy?
Sorry about posting that. I figured out what I was doing wrong, and everything works now. The new NIC I put in was stealing the hardware addresses used by my IDE controller.
A change to lilo.conf fixed everything.
-- Tim Coleman <tim@epenguin.org> [43.28 N 80.31 W] Software Developer/Systems Administrator/RDBMS Specialist/Linux Advocate University of Waterloo Honours Co-op Combinatorics & Optimization "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." -- Mark Twain
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