network card: SIOCSIFFLAGS:device or resource busy?????

Hi,
I'm trying knoppix, it looks like nice but I have a problem:
when I try to configure mt ethernet card (it is recognized, I see it in the boot part) giving my IP address and the gateway and Name server (DNS, I suppose), it gives me back this message:SIOCSIFFLAGS:device or resousce busy. I got no idea.
I just can tell that ifconfig says:
lo link encap: local loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
UP loopback running

I also tried to do ifconfig eth0 192.168.11.24 netmask 255.255.255.0 up but same message.

Any idea??

My PC is installed on a Microsoft lan (win2k), with workgroup and NT domain.

In my lan settings (win2k) I have: IP addr, WINS, gateway and DNS
Looks like not being so easy.. but I'm green at this.
Thanks for helping
Simone from Italy

Souinds like perhaps an IRQ conflict. Try cat /proc/interrupts and see if that's what's going on. Can you disable PnP in the BIOS? You are using static ip's on your network? What kind of network card?

I'm using static ip's on my network , the network card is an Intel pro/100 VM Netwprk connection, and it's seen as Intel Etherexpress pro/100 under linux.

What should I check for in cat /proc/interrupts??

My PC is a Compaq Evo W4000 with scsi card for HP scanner, Audigy audio card and radeon 8500 video card.

I think I can turn the bios option PnP in the BIOS off. Gonna try.

I first thought the driver was not correctly installed, but also Mandrake and Suse recognize the network card this way. So maybe it's a irq problem. I'd know exactly how to solve it under Win2k, but under Linux...
Thanks a lot
Simone

This is the result of the ifconfig, ifconfig eth0 and cat/proc/interrupts
:

svpg024:/home/simper # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4316 (4.2 Kb) TX bytes:4316 (4.2 Kb)

svpg024:/home/simper # ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:A5:F4:F4:9A
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Base address:0x1400 Memory:fc404000-fc404038

svpg024:/home/simper # ifconfig eth0 192.168.11.24 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Dispositivo o risorsa occupata
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Dispositivo o risorsa occupata

svpg024:/home/simper # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 86724 XT-PIC timer
1: 884 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 1 XT-PIC ohci1394, usb-uhci
8: 4 XT-PIC rtc
10: 573 XT-PIC usb-uhci
12: 24463 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 4206 XT-PIC ide0
15: 24455 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
svpg024:/home/simper #

Ah, finally: I can't turn pnp from Compaq bios...
Look like it's VERY hard for a standard machine to make linux work in a local network...
Hope I'm wrong
Simone

change a pci slot.
i done it by changing the pci slot.
good luck. :twisted: