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>
> 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)
I believe your sound card has a default of IRQ 5 -- you may have an
interrupt conflict between it and eth0. Check it out and let us know.
