<-- snip --> | My guess: Broken NIC. I had one such card that worked, but after I had | taken it out and putting back a few times, the light would never go on | again (I guess a was to brute with it). On a working nic the light | should go on immediately at power on, before any OS is even loaded, so | what ever IRQ you try for it will not cure that. | | On the other hand, it might be some problem with the EEPROM, which | could be cured. In my case, I did a successfull rewrite of the EEPROM, | and after that there where no error messages whatsoever, but still no | light and of course no connection. | | | | -- | Note that I use Debian version 3.0 | Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 s?n feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown | | Hans Ekbrand that's what i'm afraid of... especially when the utility mentioned failure! on the other hand, with my old 3com, the card was set to irq7, i loaded the module on irq5 with my cyrstal sound on-board thingy, which was also on irq5, the link light was always on!!! i'm off to run 3com's util.... thanks, jason -- --------------------------------------------------------------- | http://theigloo.dhs.org:81 | http://counter.li.org/ | | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody | 2.4.16-k6 | | jason@theigloo.dhs.org | registered linux user #202942 | ---------------------------------------------------------------
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