Re: good choice of network card?
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:20, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 16:51, Scott Henson wrote:
>
> > My friend was having a problem with a 3com 3c905C-TXM which is the same
> > card I have and mine was working just fine. I came to the conclusion
> > that the interrupt handler on the card was fried. Basically it was
> > sharing an interrupt with the sound card and when ever the sound card
> > was used, the network card would die and he would have to restart to get
> > it back. I moved the sound card to a different interrupt and the
> > network card has worked fine ever since. Now my card is also on a
> > shared interrupt, so Im just assuming the card was defective(he got it
> > used). Maybe you are having a similar problem with a defective card.
>
> Just out of curiosity: are you using a SB Live! card (emu10k1 chip)? If so,
> it's probably the soundcard. Creative doesn't seem to have heard of IRQ
> sharing yet and their cards cause instability when other devices on the same
> interrupt aren't _very_ cooperative.
Nope. Its a C-media pci card. And it shares interrupts quite well.
When I moved it it started sharing the interrupt with the usb bus. And
I havent heard any complaints from the USB bus. So Im assuming the
sound card plays well with IRQ sharing.
10: 9499952 XT-PIC cmpci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci
11: 520102 XT-PIC eth0
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