[wellylug] 3c509 NIC misery

munter wellylug at vpc.co.nz
Tue Sep 16 19:08:31 NZST 2003


I had a problem with APIC and my intel e100 card (wrong IRQ being asserted) 
until I turned APIC off in bios.

jamie

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:13, pmilne at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> I am mucking around with old 3C509's for incorporation into a firewall
> box.  I have tried configuring them with both 3Com's and Donald
> Becker's setup routines.  Although the ifconfig output and
> /proc/interrupts  say it is set to the IRQ that I intend, the 3C509 seems
> to have a mind of its own and signals the interrupt to IRQ=5, hence no
> return signal is 'received' for ping.  If I amend the 3c509 line in
> /etc/modules to 3c509 irq=5, then it pings fine (this is OK if you are
> using one card and the line is free, but it is a problem for multiple
> cards).  I am using a minimal Debian Woody system as the testbed.  I
> have only one card installed and I have shut down motherboard sound,
> serial ports and parallel port via the BIOS.
>
> Is this likely to be a setup problem, or could the card be faulty?
>
> regards
> Peter



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