Re: Networking help
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 06:50:48PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote:
>
> >[snip]
> > 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?
>
I'm running out of options here; the only other thing that I can think
of is a hardware conflict (some other device is also using IRQ 10), or
a driver misconfiguration (some other driver is listening to IRQ 10).
Sometimes ISAPNP BIOSes do stupid things with IRQs, but I'd expect that if
that were the problem you'd also have trouble in Windows.
One option is to remove any cards other than your VGA and Ethernet cards,
and see if that helps; if it does, you can start adding things back in and
see where things break. Be warned that arbitrarily adding and removing
hardware has been known to make Windows sulk.
Good luck,
John P.
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