Re: Networking help
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 04:52:14PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote
> > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> > >[snip]
> > > Your NIC driver is sending stuff to your NIC and expects to receive an
> > > interrupt down the track (probably to say that it has finished), but the
> > > interrupt never arrives.
> > >
> > > In approximately descending order of plausability, you either:
> > > - Have configured the NIC driver to use the wrong IRQ; or
> > > - Have a broken NIC; or
> > > - Have configured the NIC driver to use the wrong I/O address; or
> > > - Are using the wrong module for your NIC.
> > >
> > > If it's a PCI card, then settings probably *aren't* the problem.
> >
> > I know the nic works because I can still use it in winblows. The card is
> > detected when I give it an irq, or atleast it is said to be detected
> > correctly. The werid thing is, it stopped being detected when I just gave
> > it the io port. It used to just need the io port, and it would find the
> > irq itself and work just fine. Now I have to give it the irq also, and it
> > says it finds it but it doesn't work. My nic is an ISA Linksys and I just
> > use the ne drive for it. I've had it working before and it still works in
> > winblows, so I don't think it's the settings or the card. It's got an
> > EEPROM on it, and the eeprom is set to use IRQ 10 and io 0x240.
> >
>
> A quick look at the kernel source shows some LinkSys cards use the Tulip
> driver (likely not yours, as I thought these were all PCI cards) and some
> use the Lance driver; have you tried using the Lance driver? Also, is it a
> combo card (twisted pair/coax)? If it is you may need to set the media type
> using the (with any luck) supplied utility rather than trusting in the media
> autodetection logic.
The Lance driver doesn't find my nic at all, and the media type is set in
the eeprom. As I said, I had it working with these exact settings before.
When I do a modeprobe without an irq, there's an entry in syslog that says
it can't determine the irq. Know anything else to try?
Rob
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