On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:02:02PM -0800, Kevin Bailey wrote:
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:00:19PM -0500, Ken Januski wrote:
I still have the problem of not being able to use pon and ethernet and
same time but at least I'm headed back in the right direction.
From your earlier dumps, it does look indeed like the ethernet
card is fighting over irq 3 and somehow causing ppp to shutdown.
Perhaps the BIOS doesn't think irq 3 is being used and gives it
to the ethernet card. Perhaps you can force the ethernet card
to use another irq.
Your /proc/interrupts output shows irq 3 being allocated to "serial",
which is probably the serial port being used for your modem, which
probably explains why ppp is involved in the conflict.
Rather than trying to force the ethernet card to use another IRQ, it
may be easier to force the serial port to use another IRQ, by changing
its config in your BIOS Setup. IRQ 4 would be a good alternative,
since it is (a) a standard for serial ports and (b) not currently in
use. Check your init.d setserial settings as well.