eth0: Device or resource busy message

[Guest elspxvwcyr]

I'm at my wit's end with this problem. When I boot up Mandrake Linux 10.0 eth0 fails to initialize with the message:

 

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

 

My configuration is a Linksys BEFSR41 DSL Router connected to eth0. I know everything works OK because both Windows XP and Knoppix 3.4 come up just fine.

 

I tried every combination of settings. I just finished Gowator's "Setting up a single PC with static ethernet IO Address Howto" with no luck.

 

ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:4582 (4.4 Kb) TX bytes:4582 (4.4 Kb)

 

route -n

Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

 

iptables -nvL

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)

pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

 

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)

pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

 

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)

pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

 

iptables -nvL -t nat

Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)

pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

 

Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)

pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

 

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)

pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

 

Thanks,

JB

[Guest elspxvwcyr]

I solved this one myself. I had to change the BIOS setting for "Plug & Play O/S" from YES to NO. Problem gone.

 

JB

[Tymestream]

This was my problem too! Thanks for the simple tip. I like problems that have simple solutions!