Re: good choice of network card?

[Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.uk>]

Scott Henson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 06:46, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> >
> >
> > Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > >
> > > * Alex Hunsley (lard@tardis.ed.ac.uk) [020513 17:08]:
> > > > Btw Tom, which driver are you using for that 3c905C-TX?
> > >
> > > You should use the (unfortunately named) 3c59x.o for the 3c905 vortex
> > > series cards. More info in the kernel docs
> > > Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
> > >
> > > good times,
> > > Vineet
> >
> > That's the driver I'm using at the moment.... I may try the driver from 3com
> > that Tom mentioned, since I'm having no luck at the moment...
> >
> > thanks
> > alex
> My friend was having a problem with a 3com 3c905C-TXM which is the same
> card I have and mine was working just fine.  I came to the conclusion
> that the interrupt handler on the card was fried.  Basically it was
> sharing an interrupt with the sound card and when ever the sound card
> was used, the network card would die and he would have to restart to get
> it back.  I moved the sound card to a different interrupt and the
> network card has worked fine ever since. 

Thanks for this useful info!
How did you set the IRQ for the card? The 3c90xcfg.exe (dos config util)
doesn't let me change the IRQ, just see what it is currently...
it was on IRQ10, so I set the bios to claim IRQ10 as ISA not PCI. Now the card
has been put on IRQ12, and it's not crashed yet! 

General question: under debian, can I find out what IRQs are assigned to what
devices?

ta!
lex


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