losing sleep here - help

[yehuda]

It's not even a joke. I have to figure out why my NIC won't work.
I am using Slackware 8.0 and an LNE100TX NIC by LinkSys.
The module is tulip

Every time the card is initialized (with ifconfig) I get a message saying:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Reource Temporaroly Unavailable

Please help!!!!

THankx In advance

[Spot]

It's most likely an IRQ conflict between something and the network card. Look at /proc/interrupts. Have a look at the output of dmesg if the kernel has found your card.
Chances are, if you run: cat /proc/pci you will prolly find that the card is not assigned an IRQ.
If it is a PCI card it might be possible that the BIOS is set wrong. Some motherboards will let you assign particular IRQ's to certain PCI slots. Disabling "plug and play operating system" might solve your problem as well (doing that will tell the motherboard that it has to assign IRQ's to all devices rather than leaving it to the OS to assign them).
HTH

[yehuda]

Thank you for the help.

I can finally rest.

It's amazing how much time it took to actually fix the problem-
Including booting and changing the bios Plug And Play OS to off and rebooting linux it took about 1:30 secs.

Live and learn... 8)