Bret,

You may have hit on something.  I originally posted the wrong card
(sorry); this is a netgear EA 201C ISA NIC 10BaseT, that can be set to run
on 3,5,9,10,11,12 or 15 IRQ.

I'll try to find Donald Beckers site and see if I can run his diagnostic
program.

Thanks!

Glen

Today, at 09:58, Bret Hughes sent through the Star Gate:

>Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
>
>> It doesn't even show up:
>>
>> $ less /proc/interrupts
>>            CPU0
>>   0:     705187          XT-PIC  timer
>>   1:        230          XT-PIC  keyboard
>>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>>  12:        363          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>>  13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
>>  14:      70078          XT-PIC  ide0
>> NMI:          0
>
>Glenn-
>
>
>The ISA cards I have messed with in the past have required an entry to tell the
>driver where to find the card:  here is what my firewall conf.modules looks
>like:
>
>alias eth0 ne
>alias eth1 ne
>options ne io=0X260,0X300 irq=11,10
>
>
>This is, obviously for two NICs.  for one there would just be one entry for each
>without the commas.
>
>These are elcheapo linksys 10MB cards that had a dos based program to set the
>irq and io address settings.  I seem to recal that donald beckers nic
>diagnostics will probe for (and hopefully find ) cards and report the current
>irq and addresses that you can then use in conf.modules.
>
>This may or may not apply to the cards you are using but I have found beckers
>site to be a wealth of information as well as the hardware compatability list at
>redhat and of course the old faithful Ethernet-howto.
>
>HTH
>
>Bret
>
>
>
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