On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:39:54 -0400
"Mustafa Celik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> I think I've got some IRQ issues with 3com 3c509TP ISA ethernet card on 
> Mandrake 9.0 beta.

You need a dos util from 3com.com to set up this card.
It should be off PnP, and you can change and test the irq and io with the
util.
Are you sure you did that?


> I have installed linux as dual boot. I've got Nortel 1Meg DSL modem hooked 
> up to my ethernet card. On PC my ethernet card is recognized and works very 
> well at IRQ 9, I/O: 0x#300 . However, it is not recognized at Linux:
> 
> 1.) HardDrake (a h/w probing tool at Mandrake) can not detect my ethernet 
> device!?
> 
> 2.) Device drivers are installed properly, eth0 is there when I do 
> "ifconfig", I can ping it, shows up as up and running. Tx packets are 
> incrementing when I do "adsl-connect", but Rx never increases... I see 
> "Timeout on PADO packets" log after a while.
> 
> It might be my ISP not responding to my connect request at all, but I could 
> not see any activity on my DSL modem's LEDs when I start the "adsl-connect".
> 
> So, I am more suspicious about an internal problem, probably an IRQ 
> conflict?
> 
> I think my ISA ethernet device is set as IRQ 9, and another PCI device is 
> overwriting this setup. I have checked /proc/interrupts, IRQ 9 never 
> increments, but other IRQ's are incerementing every once in a while. What's 
> going on here?




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Marcel Pol

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