hi all.....
im going to get adsl, so i installed a second nic in my server.
a surecom ep-325 pci card.
i recompiled kernel - built the modules - loaded the modules
everything went fine, upon bootup both cards (a 3c509 as ath0 and the
surecom as eth1) are recognized correctly.
eth0 (the 3com) is showing up IRQ 10
eth1 (surecom) is showing up IRQ 11
whenever i try to bring up eth0 i get a resource conflict, so i checked
/proc/interrupts and saw that eth1 was indeed using IRQ 11 whereas IRQ10
was used by my SCSI controller.
my conclusion : eth0 was using IRQ 11 before, but the surecom card (pci) is
set to use IRQ 11 only, so eth0 had no free interrupt.
my cards are initialized by the bios, so i knew there were only 2 ways:
1) set the surecom card to use another IRQ than 11
2) set the 3com card to use another one than 10
ad 1) trying the config util that came with my surecom card i had to notice
that i wasnt offered to change the irq of the card
it was fixed to 11 (why that ?.....isnt it possible to change the
IRQ of PCI cards manually ? )
ad 2) i also wasnt able to change the irq of the 3com card with the config
progr.
so i decided to set "pnp os=yes" and let linux do the resource allocation.
setting 3com to IRQ 12 (free) in /etc/isapnp.conf, after a reboot i got the
same failure again, again the 3com was trying to use IRQ 10
instead of what i told it to use (12)
having a look at isapnp.conf again i noticed that linux had commented out
the line, saying IRQ 12, by itself.
the 3com card is set to PnP, may this be the reason for this behaviour ?
i dont think that it can be that difficult to solve this resource conflict,
im sure im pretty close to it, but there must be somthing im missing, can
anybody help ?
greetz,
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