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Brad Noyes wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: BN> I tried editting lilo.conf, but that didn't work. One the BN> boot message i get "eth0" 3com 3c905b cyclone 100basetx at BN> 0x1000, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, irq 11". I put in the lilo.conf BN> file ether=05. I would thing that it would put it at irq 5 BN> but it didn't. I did run /sbin/lilo so it did take effect. BN> The boot messages also say the it is setting eth0 to BN> promiscuous mode. I'm still stuck, but i will still try to BN> play with the lilo.conf It is unusual for Linux to pick up wrong IRQs on PCI cards, and the 3Com drivers are pretty solid. One thing you should make sure of is that you have the CMOS setup for your machine configured to assign IRQ11 as level triggered. Generally, the CMOS setup for the machine allocates a bunch of IRQs to the PCI pool if they are not reserved for the ISA slots. (Since your machine has no way of knowing which IRQs are in use by ISA cards, you have to set this manually in CMOS setup.) The PCI BIOS simply chooses a free IRQ and assigns it to your PCI Ethernet card, and Linux finds out which one from the PCI BIOS. -- Mike *** Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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