Sometimes an IRQ is shared between two PCI devices. I haven't seen sharing between two Ethernet devices on two of my linux boxes, however.
cat /proc/pci might give you more detail. Joel On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:13:11PM -0800, Aaron Grewell wrote: > Figure out which PCI slots are which (each has a number), then try > assigning IRQ's to each of your NIC slots and see if a higher or lower > IRQ affects the ordering of the ETH settings. I've never tried to > actually specify which is which, but that's how I would try to do it. > > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 14:58, Bill Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:46:48PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > > >If memory serves, you can't. > > > > > >The BIOS scans the hardware at startup and assigns such things. Maybe > > >there is some setting in the BIOS you can fiddle with. > > > > > >You might try exchanging the cards in the motherboard. > > > > I usually find it easier to ping another system, swapping cables until it > > works. Once they're up in a particular sequence they won't change until > > something else in the hardware changes. > > > > Once you have them identified, marking with a Sharpe pen may help for the > > next time you unplug the cables and forget which was which. > > > > Some NIC drivers will turn the link light off when the driver's down so > > doing an ``ifdown eth0'', the seeing which lights are still on may also > > work. > > > > Bill > > -- > > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > > UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 > > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > > > > ``Never do your enemy a minor injury.'' > > - Machiavelli > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
