Incoming from Charles Muller:
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.
When I run lspci I get this:
bash-2.05a$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0650 (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 04)
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] OHCI Compliant FireWire Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7013 (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7002
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 1410
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 6325
bash-2.05a$
...which seems to indicate that they are not using the same IRQ
(right?).
Ummm, what? What seems to indicate they are not using the same IRQ?
The fact that they're both recognized? I believe this says nothing
other than they're both there; it's up to you to say what to do with
what was found.
Barring *really* strange circumstances, 2.4.x _should_ be able to
handle anything you throw at it. 2.6.x is way too young for a newbie
to start slavering after.
cat /proc/ioports
" " interrupts
lsmod
grep $blah /var/log/messages
[Hey Chuck! Que pasa?]