Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:05:24 +0200 (CEST) | From | Peter Svensson <> | Subject | Re: PCI devices (tulip and vortex ethernet cards) grab IRQ 0 :-( |
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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:
> I have a new HP 6470Z. The only ethernet card that Linux can use is an > ISA 3Com 509. I've tried the Netgear Tulip (with the real DEC chip) and > the 3Com 905 PCI 10/100 cards, but they show up with IRQ 0 and then > don't work (not surprising). The machine has redhat v5.2 with the 2.2.4 > kernel. The same behaviour was observed with the stock redhat kernel as > well. Windows 98 can find the PCI ethernet cards. How is the IRQ > selected? How can I get Linux to correctly configure the PCI cards?
You need a newer version of the tulip.c driver file, the one in the kernels is too old. The one from ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/tulip.c will probably fix this for you.
The tulip is a nice chip. Unfortunatly the vendors keep changing the exact implementation all the time. :/
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