Jeff Cours wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it's a simple matter of the ethernet card's module. I went through the installation process again last night and kept a written log:<http://www.moriarti.org/~jtc/troubleshooting.txt> Any other suggestions? Is there another module I'm missing somewhere? thanks, Jeff
Hi Jeff,I took a peek at your "troubleshooting.txt" file and it seems to me that when you tried inserting the 8139too module in step 24 it suceeded, but the IRQ of 19 is a bit "weird"to me. In my experience here it usually is set to an IRQ between 9 and 12. I thought IRQs only went up to 15, but I am NOT up on current MB designs. This tells me that the 8139too is the correct module for you, but I suspect you have an IRQ problem somewhere. When you run the 2.2.20 kernel, what IRQ is assigned to the NIC? You should be able to see it listed in "cat /proc/interrupts".
Just for grins, and to complete all the basic stuff, could you check in your BIOS and make sure that the "PnP OS" setting is set to "off" or "no", whichever selection you have? I have seen this produce some very weird IRQ settings on this chipset here when it is set to "yes".
Others might have some better suggestions...I am definately speculating <grin>.
Hmmm... just occurred to me that the IRQ in your "troubleshooting.txt" could have been a typo...if so, ignore the above.
Cheers, -Don Spoon-