Hi Geoff, I've got a couple of suggestions. First, if the isa card is not a pnp card, I'd recommend changing its jumpers to use a different irq that's free in your system. Second, you could get in to your bios, and manually alocate an irq to your pci card (over-ride automatic irq alocation by the bios). Hope this might help in some way. Greg On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:04:17PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi all: > > I just got cable on today and am wrestling with the problem of getting > linux to work with my 2 NICs. I don't know as muchh about them as I could > unfortunately, but hopefully someone can help me here. I've also not used > PCI before so I'm not real clear how it goes about allocating resources and > all that. > > My problem is that both my cards want to live on IRQ 10. My original ISA > card (an intel etherexpress pro card) is showing up on IRQ 10 at address > 0x300. I don't think it's PnP - I'm not using ISAPnPtools at any rate. > Anyway, I stuck the NIC that came with the cable connection in the PC (an > SMC1211TX which is a realtek 8139 chipset card), compiled in PCI support > and the realtek driver, and rebooted. Well, the new card showed up on eth0 > and the old one was nowhere to be seen. > > I had a chat to the guys on the speakup reflector, and Jim dug up some info > in the > ethernet howto regarding multiple ethernet cards. In particular, I noted > the ethernet= commandline parameter. So I tried it out. Firstly I tried > "ether=10,0x300,eth0) to force the ISA card into being eth0 which would > meen less changes on my part. This completely failed to work, with eth0 > still being the new card and eth1 failing to show up. I changed the eth0 > in the command line param to eth1 and this time it worked ... to a point. > eth1 existed, but it was still on IRQ 10, and so was the new card. When I > tried to initialise the device, I got the following error: > > eth1: unable to get IRQ 10. > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resourse temporarily unavailable. > > Any thoughts? I'm guessing that the ISA card can't live anywhere else > without fiddling with jumpers or software-configured settings, but I > thought that PCI was fairly flexible. > > Geoff. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
