Re: Newbie trouble with network card
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:35:46 -0500
Keith and Cecile <keithandcecile@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It was inscribed by Chrissie Brown in the annals dated 1/24/05 5:30
> PM:
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:10:11 +0100, Keith and Cecile wrote:
> >
> >>line (after having used Intel's program to disable pnp and put the
> >same >settings on the card).
> >
> > Why did you do this? How about enabling pnp again and using the
> > isapnptools package to set up the card? isapnptools will get
> > executed at boot time and sets everything right (in my 3 pcs)
> >
> > isapnptools - ISA Plug-And-Play configuration utilities.
> >
> I had googled for problems with this particular card and the advice
> most people gave was to disable PnP (also the Ethernet-HOWTO). If I do
> decide to go back to PnP, doesn't the 2.4 kernel handle PnP without
> isapnptools? (And Woody uses the 2.4 kernel, right?)
>
> Anyway, I've changed the IRQ to 10, because some cards evidently want
> an IRQ of 10 or 11. On boot, the card is detected with the right IRQ
> and io settings. cat /proc/ioports shows that the full io space that
> the card needs is vacant. cat /proc/interrupts shows eth0 at IRQ 10
> (and nothing else is at IRQ 10) but the interrupt events listing shows
> 0.
>
> On boot, I'm getting the following message three times:
>
> eth0: set Rx mode to 1 address.
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means and if it's part of the problem I'm
> experiencing?
What you've described so far sounds pretty good. Can you show us the
output from "ifconfig -a" and "route -n"?
Jacob
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