Re: 2.0.35 && PCI NE2000

Hubert Mantel (mantel@suse.de)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:34:11 +0200


Hi,

On Thu, Sep 10, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote:

> OK, we made the mistake to buy a Compex PCI card...
>
> I tried it with a 486/66 in an older PCI board (3 PCI slots).
^^^^^^^^^
I had similar problems when trying to install several PCI cards in old
machines. I suspect problems with the PCI BIOS. In one machine we
succeeded in installing multiple SCSI adapters (a NCR53c875 and a NCR
53C810) after fiddling around with the BIOS settings and moving the cards
from one slot to another, in another machine we finally gave up.

> modprobe ne2k-pci detects the card (I/O 0x4040, IRQ 12), but ifconfig
> freezes the box or makes it issue endless messages about interrupt 12
> from unknown device.

> Linux version is 2.0.35 (SuSE) or 2.0.pre36-8. Both use version 0.99L of
> the ne2k driver (newest version I know of). Other PCI devices are
> a 3c590 ethernet card and a graphic card.

Just for testing purposes: If you remove the 3com card, can you get the
new one to run?

> I found no reports of similar problems, so I assume the driver is OK
> and the hardware has a problem. Is this correct?
>
> If someone suspects a bug I will gladly send him all information
> I can get.
>
> Regards,
> hjb
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Hubert Mantel /\\
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