Re: [Sheflug] eepro 100 wierdness

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 17:51, Paul Sims wrote:
> As part of doing someone a good turn on an old pc, I donated them my
> Realtek lan card & fitted myself an Intel Pro 100 card. Unfortunately,
> this works fine with Winduhs 98 & XP but not Linux.... I previously
> found problems with networking when ACPI was enabled on the mobo, but
> with this disabled I get "lost interrupt" when linux starts jiggling
> the hdds on startup. Winduhs reports the lan card at IRQ11, but Linux
> says IRQ17. 
>  
> Any pointers, good folk? BTW, the eepro100 module doesn't seem to like
> being passed an irq at startup.

What version of Linux is it, and do you have 'Plug and Play OS' enabled
in the BIOS?

You could try putting the card in another slot, I've heard that makes a
difference sometimes.

Cheers,

Alex.

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