Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel
Wayne Topa wrote:
> Charles Muller(acmuller@gol.com) is reported to have said:
> > I upgraded my 2.2* Woody kernel to 2.4.20 to get support for my external
> > USB drive. I succeeded, but in the process lost my network connection
> > via my rtl8139 nic. The driver (8139too) was compiled, but it won't
>
> Had the same problem until I ras lspci and noticed the USB controller
> was using the same IRQ as my NIC. Changing IRQ's fixed it.
So, following Mr. Keeling's advice,
I ran
>
> cat /proc/ioports
> " " interrupts
> lsmod
> grep $blah /var/log/messages
and now I see this
debian:/home/chuck# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 37205 XT-PIC timer
1: 661 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
9: 24 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-ohci
11: 9 XT-PIC usb-ohci, eth0
And also this:
debian:/home/chuck# grep $chuck /var/log/messages
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.24
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:0a.0 (0000 -> 0003)
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0x2000, 00:90:f5:1f:3b:ba, IRQ 11
[...]
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: SiS router pirq escape (96)
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: SiS router pirq escape (96)
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: PCI: Guessed IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xdc816000, IRQ 11
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
Dec 26 17:53:02 debian kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
... and so I am guessing that I am having the same problem.
I will look around to see how one changes IRQ addresses, but if anyone
can give me a pointer here, I'd appreciate it.
Chuck
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