Re: Ethernet irq #3
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I`m fairly new to all this so before I go to the extent of replacing
> the kernel, which I hadn`t intended to do until potato was the stable
> version, please could someone tell me in laymans terms how to change
> the IRQ that this NIC uses even if only to eliminate the IRQ as a
> possibility.
That depends greatly on the card; can't help you there.
> BTW I don`t know if this is relevant but if I do "lsmod" the at1700
> driver doesn`t show and if I do "modprobe at1700" I get this message:
>
> FUDO2:/home/paul# modprobe at1700
> /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/at1700.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> Is this important?
It certainly is - it means the driver for the ethernet card isn't
detecting the card. Do you know what i/o port it's using? Knowing that
would greatly simplify getting networking to work.
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