Problems with network cards in old board
Hello,
I'm trying to replace a 10MBit card in an older computer by a 100MBit
card. The system is an Pentium-133, PIIX chipset, running Sarge with
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386. Previously the system had an 10Mbit Intel
EEPro ISA card, which worked flawlessly. The system is an X terminal.
First I tried a D-Link DFE-530TX, which normally runs flawlessly in
other systems with sarge. The via-rhine driver for this card loads,
creates eth0, detects a 100Mbit FD link, but when I try to send data,
I see "eth0: transmit timed out".
Then I tried a 3Com 3C905C-TX-M card, which also runs with Sarge in
other systems. This time the kernel tells me "Warning: IRQ 0 is
unlikely to work." and advises me to use pci=biosirq. I tried that
too: This parameter makes the kernel oops, before it comes to
userspace.
I also tried to assign an irq in the bios manually, but this has no
effects. Can anybody give me a tip, how to get this to work?
Kind regards,
Jim
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