Re: Dysfunctional ne (RTL8019AS)
Subject: Dysfunctional ne (RTL8019AS)
Date: Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:07:22AM +0200
In reply to:Hugo van der Merwe
Quoting Hugo van der Merwe(hugovdm@mail.com):
> Hello,
>
> I recently replaced my old SB16 with a Sound Blaster Live, which caused
> quite some reassignments of IRQ's etc. I have two network cards in the
> machine, one that "ne2k-diag" claims is an RTL8019AS (bought as an
> ne2000 compatible, and served faithfully until now). (The other is an
> rtl8139, and I use the 8139too driver.)
>
> I've now shifted the ne to IRQ 5, it's base is still 0x300 - it seems to
> work fine, but if I try to use it, I get e.g. the following:
>
> hugo@baboon[4]:~/znobackup$ ssh chimp
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
> ...
>
> Should I simply go on and try different IRQ's? (IRQ 7 is for parallel
> port, right? So that won't work?) Or how else can I diagnose this
> problem?
There is no need for the printer to use any IRQ. I have it disabled,
in lilo.conf, so that my 8390[ne2k-pci] can use it.
append = "apm=on lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none"
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