Can't see both NICs after upgrade to Etch
All -
My Sarge installation worked fine. I have two NICs in my system:
1) 3Com 3C509B EtherLink III (IO=0x220, IRQ=5)
2) NE2000 found at 0x300 (IO=0x300, IRQ=10)
However, when Etch boots up it sees the following:
1) 3Com 3C509B EtherLink III (IO=0x230, IRQ=10)
2) NE2000 found at 0x300 (IO=0x300, IRQ=10)
Clearly, I have an interrupt conflict with Etch
So, I tried to change change the 3c509 module (/etc/modules) to IRQ 5,
but it did not work. It still came up as IRQ 10.
So, I tried to change the module ne module (/etc/modules) to IRQ 11.
ifconfig confirms that worked. However, the interface then reports the
following error and refuses to work:
Netdev watchdog eth1 transmit timeout
Since both cards are isa cards, I'm guessing that I'll have to
reconfigure the NE2000 (via ne2k-diag program from the nictools-nopci
package) to use IRQ 11. Does this sound correct?
Are there any other suggestions that anyone might offer to correct this
problem?
Also, what is is about Etch that makes it see the two NIC cards
differently than Sarge? Fortunately, the kernel upgrade process allows
me to quickly reboot into my prior (Sarge) kernel. And, as I indicated
previously, when I do that that NIC cards are properly seen and works
perfectly.
Thanks in Advance!
/proc/interrupts from Sarge:
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CPU0
0: 6340826 XT-PIC timer
1: 222 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 165018 XT-PIC eth0
8: 4 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci
10: 32675 XT-PIC NE2000
14: 415219 XT-PIC ide0
15: 1148 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
/proc/interrupts from Etch
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CPU0
0: 75278 XT-PIC timer
1: 470 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 1 XT-PIC OPL3-SA2
6: 3 XT-PIC floppy
7: 0 XT-PIC parport0
8: 4 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb1
10: 937 XT-PIC NE2000
14: 7776 XT-PIC ide0
15: 109 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
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