I would get rid of the ISA card and buy a new PCI card. You don't have
to manually set the interrupts on the PCI cards. I used to use
ISA cards just fine, but with the new BIOSes on several systems and
new versions of Linux, I had problems. I now use the linksys and
D-link PCI 10/100 cards (around US$20-30 at Best Buy). They work fine.
Also, I frequently connect to a laptop from desktop. Laptop card:
linksys PCMCIA, desktop card: linksys BNC-10baseT combo. Have not yet
tried the 10/100 cards in this configuration, but I am confident they
would work.
Don't forget routing changes.
Good luck!
-sen
Marco Fioretti writes:
> Thanks to you all for your support and useful info.
>
> Since it's not working yet, there are some more informations/
> tests I did yesterday.
>
> Changing cables doesn't seem to make things any different.
> PCMCIA cable connector blinks as expected in normal operations
> The same applies to Desktop card leds.
>
> Several people pointed out that I was using IO 0x280 and IRQ 5,
> which is Soundblaster's default. Then I:
> removed soundblaster
> reconfigured jumper on dektop card to useI/O 0x280, IRQ 11
>
> NOTE: the network card datasheet says:
>
> ISA full duplex ethernet with plug and play feature,
>
> "...it is a ISA bus and a Plug&Play + jumper + jumperless
> +full duplex Ethernet card"
>
> I configured Jumpers to Disable Plug and Play function,
> enable jumper mode
>
> Result: no improvement yet, some interesting messages in dmesg, see
> below
>
> TIA,
> Marco
>
> >>>>dmesg|tail on desktop
> ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280: 00 c0 26 ce 18 ac
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x280, using IRQ 11.
> eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x2, t=745.
> eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x2, t=7500.
> tcpdump uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
> device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> device eth0 left promiscuous mode
>
>
>
> >>>>dmesg|tail sul desktop, after reboot, with LAPTOP off
>
> ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280: 00 c0 26 ce 18 ac
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x280, using IRQ 11.
> eth0: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=752.
>
>
> >>>> cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-| Receive |
> Transmit
> face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed
> multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
> lo: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> eth0: 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
> 1402 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
>
> >>>> cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0
> 0: 165439 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 1517 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 10: 21 XT-PIC aic7xxx
> 11: 0 XT-PIC NE2000
> 12: 0 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 56697 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 6 XT-PIC ide1
> NMI: 0
>
> >>>> cat /proc/ioports
> 0000-001f : dma1
> 0020-003f : pic1
> 0040-005f : timer
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0070-007f : rtc
> 0080-008f : dma page reg
> 00a0-00bf : pic2
> 00c0-00df : dma2
> 00f0-00ff : fpu
> 0170-0177 : ide1
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> 0280-029f : NE2000
> 02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
> 0376-0376 : ide1
> 03c0-03df : vga+
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> 03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
> e400-e407 : ide0
> e408-e40f : ide1
> e800-e8be : aic7xxx
