Ian Tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Dave Fitch wrote:
> > mine's not got the "+" sign and appears that it should
> > be the via-rhine driver.
> > Unfortunately I keep getting "device busy" messages
> > trying to modprobe/insmod it.
>
> You're sure the driver isn't already loaded or built into the kernel?
reasonably sure (it's the default debian 2.2r2 kernel off
the install CD - 2.2.18pre21).
> > Also of concern is that dmesg, messages file, etc don't
> > mention it, the bios pci scan reports it at irq 10
> > but that's it, /proc/interrupts doesn't list 10 as in use.
>
> So, doing an 'lspci -v' or 'cat /proc/pci' shows the card?
yes /proc/pci shows it, right address and interrupt.
I was beginning to doubt the card was seated in properly or
something similar but dug out an old dos boot disk and ran the
diag program that came on a floppy with the card and it found it
all working ok.
> It is
> definitely a Rhine chip on the card?
i think so yes
> > I have basically just moved my disks
> > from my old PC to a new one with this new ethernet card
> > so I'm wondering if there's some "reconfigure" type
> > thing needed (like solaris' "boot -r")
>
> You might want to go into the BIOS setup and configure the IRQ allocation
> (PNP setup?). PCI cards are Plug 'n Play, but if some non-PnP ISA card is
> wanting IRQ 10 you should indicate this in the BIOS setup.
> i.e set it to "legacy/ISA" or whatever. Then the card will be allocated a
> different IRQ when the system starts.
the only ISA card was an old soundblaster - and it wasn't setup.
For now, I've put the old ISA ethernet card back in - which works
fine (ewrk3 module). I'll try your IRQ idea above and also
Jeff's bus mastering PCI slot idea on the weekend but if all
that fails I'll take the card back and keep using the old ISA
one.
Dave.
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