NCR53C815 vs Tulip: sharing IRQ fails

[Michael Meissner]

On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 03:06:21AM -0800, Hardware Stuff wrote:
> 
> I have a system that's not short on IRQs, but in which the BIOS
> insists on giving the DTC 3130B NCR53C815 and the D-Link DFE500-Tx
> 21040 the same IRQ.  The NCR53C815 reports obtaining a shared IRQ and
> functions fine, while it's impossible to ifconfig the Tulip.  It's an
> i386 2.0.36 kernel with the latest patches for the NCR.
> 
> I'm be happy if I could force either card to a different IRQ, but
> nothing has worked yet.  Has anyone had this setup working?

I've been happily sharing a NETgear FA310TX card with a TekRam 390F and now an
original NCR53C810 scsi controller for quite some time on both my home system
(Pentium-II) and work system (dual Pentium Pro, which I just recently changed
the scsi card to my Adaptec 2940UW).  Note, I use the 2.2.x kernels (2.2.3
currently).  So rather than patching 2.0.36, you might want to rev up your
utilities and go to 2.2.x.

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