[aclug-L] Re: Compaq NIC question?

[Sanjay Dhar <sxdhar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I finally upgraded my kernel from 2.0.35 to 2.2.13 over the weekend. Right
now my NIC is detected fine by Linux. However, the kernel is tring to
assign IRQ 0 to the PCI NIC (which actually is the system timer). How do I
get it to assign another IRQ, say 10 or 11 which is free on my system.
BTW, I dual boot using loadlin and not LILO, so I don't know how I can
pass any arguments to the kernel in this case to specify a different IRQ
for my NIC. The way I have it set up is that I compiled the driver into
the kernel and not as a module. 

Suggestions are welcome. TIA.

--
Sanjay 

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Sanjay Dhar wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just happened to get my hands on a Compaq Netelligent 10/100
> UTP PCI Ethernet adapter. On going through the HOWTO for Ethernet, I found
> that it is supported by Linux :-)
> 
> However, after I physically installed the card, I loaded the driver
> (tlan.o) as a module without success. Since, I haven't messed with the
> kernel in a little while, I compiled this driver into the kernel. Still no
> success. My ifconfig -a only shows the local loopback. I however have a
> few snapshots of some of the key files below. BTW, I'm still running RH
> 5.2 with the 2.0.35 kernel - shame on me.
> 
> Here's /var/adm/messages:
> 
> Nov 20 01:34:46 emperor kernel: TLAN driver, v1.0, (C) 1997-8 Caldera,
> Inc. 
> Nov 20 01:34:46 emperor kernel: TLAN:    IO mapping not available,
> ignoring device. 
> Nov 20 01:34:46 emperor kernel: TLAN:  Activating PCI bus mastering for
> this device. 
> 
> 
> Snapshot of cat /proc/pci 
> 
> PCI devices found: 
> Bus  0, device  19, function  0: 
>    VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems 5597/5598 VGA
> (rev 104 
> ). 
>      Medium devsel. 
>      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe800000. 
>      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedf0000. 
>      I/O at 0xfc00. 
> Bus  0, device  11, function  0: 
>    Network controller: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 (rev 16). 
>      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 255.  Master Capable.
> Lat 
> ency=64. 
>      I/O at 0xfcd0. 
>      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedee800. 
> 
> 
> cat /proc/ioports 
> 
> 0000-001f : dma1 
> 0020-003f : pic1 
> 0040-005f : timer 
> 0060-006f : keyboard 
> 0070-007f : rtc 
> 0080-009f : dma page reg 
> 00a0-00bf : pic2 
> 00c0-00df : dma2 
> 00f0-00ff : npu 
> 0170-0177 : ide1 
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0 
> 0376-0376 : ide1 
> 03c0-03df : vga+ 
> 03f0-03f5 : floppy 
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0 
> 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 
> 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 
> 
> 
> cat /proc/interrupts 
> 
> 0:     178360   timer 
> 1:       2777   keyboard 
> 2:          0   cascade 
> 8:          1 + rtc 
> 12:      68851   PS/2 Mouse 
> 13:          0   math error 
> 14:      70264 + ide0 
> 15:          0 + ide1 
> 
> 
> Any help would greatly be appreciated. 
> 
> TIA
> Sanjay
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
> (Bruce Ediger, bediger@xxxxxxxxxxxx, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.)
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