[tulip] 3com905

Carsten Cimander carsten_cimander@hp.com
Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:41:13 +0200


Hi Bogdan,

> 
> Then this message should belong to vortex@scyld.com, not to
> tulip@scyld.com...

Ok. Thks 4 advice.
> 
> > My question: How to assign another interrupt to a PCI-NIC?
> 
> Interrupts are assigned by PCI. Some BIOSes allow you to reserve IRQs for
> ISA, so these will not be taken by PCI devices, so you can try to reserve
> IRQ 5 for ISA (but be sure that you have another free IRQ line).

... I 'll try this after a while - as you suggested, depending on new
driver's
behaviour.

> However, the hangs that you report might not be interrupt related. Try
> running vortex-diag (see http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html) before

... Got it and let's wait and see if new driver works finer.

Regards,
Carsten