Re: Problem solved! - sort of. (was Re: kernel halts during first boot)

[Stefan Rieken <StefanRieken@SoftHome.net>]

Hi all,

I think I only sent my latest message privately to Prabhu. So here's a
redo of it for the list. Sorry!

> ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 80 48 9f 13 63
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5.

This sounds like it must be my problem, too:

ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 79 85 4a ba
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5.

But:

- AFAIK I don't share IRQ's (anyway IRQ 5). How can I be sure? If I'm
not, isn't this an ISA NE2000 card driver problem, and shouldn't it be
documented somewhere?

Could someone give an impression on how, and why, IRQ's are allocated;
how do the card and the system interact? Just for the matter of
education?

I still didn't touch my hardware, but maybe I'll try tonight.

Thanks,

Stefan


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