I pulled everything out of my machine but the video card and the nic and
the nic still wouldn't work. Usually I wouldn't have asked the mailing
list about such a simple thing, but this has me baffled. Do you, or
anyone else, know of anything else to try to get my nic working correctly?
Rob
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 06:50:48PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote
> > On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> >
> > >[snip]
> > > A quick look at the kernel source shows some LinkSys cards use the Tulip
> > > driver (likely not yours, as I thought these were all PCI cards) and some
> > > use the Lance driver; have you tried using the Lance driver? Also, is it
> > > a
> > > combo card (twisted pair/coax)? If it is you may need to set the media
> > > type
> > > using the (with any luck) supplied utility rather than trusting in the
> > > media
> > > autodetection logic.
> >
> > The Lance driver doesn't find my nic at all, and the media type is set in
> > the eeprom. As I said, I had it working with these exact settings before.
> > When I do a modeprobe without an irq, there's an entry in syslog that says
> > it can't determine the irq. Know anything else to try?
> >
>
> I'm running out of options here; the only other thing that I can think
> of is a hardware conflict (some other device is also using IRQ 10), or
> a driver misconfiguration (some other driver is listening to IRQ 10).
> Sometimes ISAPNP BIOSes do stupid things with IRQs, but I'd expect that if
> that were the problem you'd also have trouble in Windows.
>
> One option is to remove any cards other than your VGA and Ethernet cards,
> and see if that helps; if it does, you can start adding things back in and
> see where things break. Be warned that arbitrarily adding and removing
> hardware has been known to make Windows sulk.
>
> Good luck,
>
>
> John P.
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