Clone install headaches

[Sergio Salvi]

Either your PCI BIOS or sis900 module is broken. First check on your BIOS setup, 
somewhere in the "Advanced Configuration" and look for the option "PNP OS" or 
"Plug-and-Play OS Installed" (or similar) and happily change it to "NO". Save, 
reboot and let RedHat try to bring the interface up.

If after all this the problem continues, you could try adding "pci=bios" in your 
kernel parameters:

in /etc/lilo.conf, append="pci=bios" and run "lilo"

or, if using GRUB, in /etc/grub.conf add "pci=bios" at the end of the line which 
begins with "kernel ..."

Hope that helps!

[]s,
SAlvi


Paul DiRezze wrote:
> At 03:11 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm, that makes sense as you can't copy and paste from your isolated 
>> machine :)
>>
>> Try the following then:
>>
>> # stop network:
>> service network stop
> 
> 
> No problem
> 
> 
>> # make sure there is no DHCP client using/locking the interface
>> ps uxaw | grep -i dhclient
>> ps uxaw | grep -i eth
>> ps uxaw | grep -i dhcp
> 
> 
> None were running
> 
> 
>> # if you find some, run
>> kill -9 PID (where PID is the process number you've got in the "ps" 
>> command)
>>
>> # check again with "ps" if they're gone
>>
>> # try to unload the module from kernel:
>> rmmod sis900
> 
> 
> No problem
> 
> 
>> # and try running the DHCP client manually:
>> dhclient -d eth0
> 
> 
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0pl2
> .
> .
> .
> 
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:e3:f1:28
> Sending on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:e3:f1:28
> Sending on Socket/Fallback
> receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
> DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> send_packet: Network is Down
> DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
> send_packet: Network is Down
> DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
> send_packet: Network is Down
> DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
> send_packet: Network is Down
> DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> send_packet: Network is Down
> No DHCPOFERS received
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping
> 
> and then it begins all over again
> 
> 
>> # open another terminal (Alt-F2), logon as root and check the interfaces:
>> ifconfig -a
>>
>> And keep looking the output of the dhclient command. Send the output 
>> of "ifconfig -a" and dhclient. If this doesn't work too, I would say 
>> it's a problem with this module (sis900) and compile a newer kernel, 
>> but you'll have to transfer it using some CD-R or floppy disks (sic)...
>>
>> BTW, what's your kernel version and CPU? "uname -a" it :)
> 
> 
> domain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42.51 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 
> GNU/Linux
> 
> 
>> []s,
>> Salvi
>>
>>
>> Paul DiRezze wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry,  my mistake.
>>> The output from the command is alias eth0 sis900 and NOT 9000.  I 
>>> made a typo while transcribing the contents of the file.
>>> Sorry about that.
>>> paul
>>> At 02:04 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yep, that's it!!
>>>>
>>>> Paul: change it to "900" (and not nine thousand) and run "service 
>>>> network restart".
>>>>
>>>> []s,
>>>> Salvi
>>>>
>>>> Sergey Kuznetsov wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On March 10, 2004 01:53 pm, Paul DiRezze wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> At 01:32 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please send the output of the following commands:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> cat /etc/modules.conf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> alias eth0 sis9000
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     I think there is mistake, it must be:
>>>>>         alias eth0 sis900
>>>>
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