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SubjectRe: PCI devices (tulip and vortex ethernet cards) grab IRQ 0 :-(
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You need a newer version of the tulip.c driver file, the one in the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. :/

Peter
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