Re: forcing a pci nic to use a different irq?

2001-07-30 Thread james terris
Sorry, I'm joining this conversation a little late so forgive me if this has already been said... Is your ethernet card an ISA one? If so there should be an configuration application that will let you move it to a different irq. Otherwise in your BIOS somewhere there should be a setting to assign

Re: forcing a pci nic to use a different irq?

2001-07-30 Thread Paul Mackinney
Matthew Garman muttered: > According to the Ethernet HOWTO, the most common cause of this problem is > an IRQ conflict. This seems believable, because... > > cat /proc/interrupts > >CPU0 > 0: 42726 XT-PIC timer > 1: 2024 XT-PIC keyboard > 2

Re: forcing a pci nic to use a different irq?

2001-07-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:25:19PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > cat /proc/interrupts > 11: 5986 XT-PIC sym53c8xx, eth0 > append="ether=9,0,0,0,eth0" > > Then I *ran lilo*, rebooted, but the result was the same: the card still > loads on IRQ 11. > > The card *used* to work fin

forcing a pci nic to use a different irq?

2001-07-24 Thread Matthew Garman
Hello: I have a two computer home LAN set up. I cannot get the machines to see each other (i.e., neither can ping the other). When I try to ping the other computer, it looks as though information is leaving, but not coming back, since the activity lights on my switch flash when I run ping. Acc