On Tuesday 09 January 2001 19:17, you wrote:
> Hello folks,
> In may job I have an old Pentium 200 non MMX with 32 Mb Ram, two hard
> drives (one 1,6 Gb with windows98 an other 10Gb, 6 for linux, 4 extra
> for windows). The computer it's in the University net, using an OvisLink
> LE_8019 PnP and an old Creative Vibra SB 16.
> In this computer I had Windows98 and Mandrake 7.0 running, but I decided
> to try the change to Mandrake 7.2; because the memory, I used the text
> installation and it works!!, even KDE 2.0 are running faster than the
> KDE1 with MDK 7.0, but , bad news!!!, I can't run internet.
>
> The module is accepted, this net-card it is compatible with ne2000 and
> if I use:
> modprobe ne irq=5 io=0x300, the result is:
> eth0 NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5
>
> If I use lsmod, then:
> ne 6544
> 8390 6208 [ne]
>
> [I do not know if the number 8390 is important, my net-card is OVisLink
> LE-8019!!!!!, is this number related to the 8390???)
>
> Everything seems to be running, but if I try to connect (for example,
> using lynx), then I have not connection and using dmesg I can see the
> next line:
>
> eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x93, t=943
>
> (Note: the value of t is changing, I think that every time I try to
> connect).
>
> ne module, irq 5 and io 0x300 was the configuration used with MDK 7.0
> and, as I said, it worked.
>
> Please, could anybody help me!!!
>
> Thanks a lot for your attention
>
> Francisco Alcaraz
> Murcia (Spain)
7.2 is using alsa sound which might preempt 5--try a different interrupt
because we both know your 8019 is on the ISA bus where interrupts cannot be
shared.
Alternatively load sndconfig and run it, getting the SB off of 5.
Civileme
