Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:27:27PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
| On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:07:44AM -0700, bedlam@alumni.rice.edu wrote:
| > In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have purchased a
| > new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version 5. However, Linux or my box doesn't
| > see the NIC enough to give it an IRQ number. Everything else seems in order
| > when I pull up cat /proc/pci, except there is no IRQ number... I'm trying
| > to use the tulip driver that came w/ the 2.4.9 kernel, tulip.c version
| > 0.9.15-pre6
|
| You shouldn't have to specific an irq, it's a pci NIC.
|
| I'm running several LNE100TX cards, and they work great. The only problem
| is that I had to get the latest tulip source. I'm attaching it to this email.
| The location was specified in the documentation on the floppy that comes with
| the NIC. I wish they'd included the source, but that's my only complaint.
Interesting. I didn't even look at the disk that came with my new
card, but my old one had the then-current source on it. I never even
needed the latest source, the version that came with whatever kernel I
was running worked fine.
-D
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