RTL8139 conflicting with hard drive?

RTL8139 conflicting with hard drive?

[Tim Coleman]

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?

-- 
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

Re: RTL8139 conflicting with hard drive?

[Tim Coleman]

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