[tulip] Problem with insmod tulip -- Device or resource busy

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Lee Mondshein wrote:

> I hope this posting is appropriately addressed. I am running Linux
> 2.2.12-20 and am attempting to configure a LAN using Linksys'  Combo
> PCMIA Ethernet card (EC2T).

Is that a PCMCIA (16 bit) card or a CardBus (32 bit) card?
I suspect that it's a PCMCIA card.  If so, it doesn't use the Tulip driver.

> >modprobe eth0
> /lib/modules/2.2.12-20 /net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

The PCMCIA control system will load the proper module for you.

It cannot be done by hand, since the mapping registers must be
configured first.

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