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.

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Tim Coleman <[e-mail]>                         [43.28 N 80.31 W]
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