LNE100TX problem ....

[Arie]

I would checl check your bios settings to make sure you have an irq set to
pnp or something.  I had the same prob with an old p60.  The card worked
under winnt 4 but under linux I got that error.  Once I made irq 9  pnp and
not isa it ran just as great under linux.

Arie

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, pradnya wrote:

> Hi,
>      I have recently bought the LinkSys LNE100TX (Chip : 82C115) and
> installed it my computer. Win-95 detected the card and installed proper
> device drivers. The card works dandy under Win-95 as I was able to do
> the telnet to my ISDN router. By going through Win-95's MyComputer -->
> Properties .... I found the card is set for following configuration .
> 
> IRQ  -- >9
> IO Range  -->  0600-06ff
> Range --> 000CA000-000CA0FF
> Range --> 04000000-0400FFFF
> 
>     Under Linux "insmod tulip" gives no problems. However when trying to
> give following ifconfig command it says
> 
> himgiri:~# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> Seeing through /var/log/messages the IRQ shows 0
> --------------
> 
> Oct  7 09:21:29 himgiri kernel:   The PCI BIOS has not enabled the
> device at 0/120!  Updating PCI command 0083->0087.
> Oct  7 09:21:29 himgiri kernel: tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99
> becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Oct  7 09:21:29 himgiri kernel: eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0xf800,
> 00:A0:CC:34:22:11, IRQ 0.
> Oct  7 09:30:00 himgiri /USR/SBIN/CRON[405]: (root) CMD ( test -x
> /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons )
> -------------------
> 
> Running the tulip-diag program gived following output :
> 
> himgiri:~ # /tmp/tulip-diag
> tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> Index #1: Found a Lite-On PNIC-II adapter at 0xf800.
> This chip has not been assigned a valid IRQ, and will not function.
>  This must be fixed in the PCI BIOS setup.  The device driver has no way
> 
>  of changing the PCI IRQ settings.
>  Port selection is 10mpbs-serial, full-duplex.
>  .           .              .
>  .           .              .
>  .           .              .
> --------------------
> 
> Going through the "Setup" at boot time I cannot see any settings allowed
> for interrupts numbers. Details of the creature are :
> 
> PC : Pentium-II 300MHz HP Brio (Hewlett-Packard)
> BIOS : Phoneix 4.0
> Linux : SUSE 6.1
> Kernel : 2.2.5
> 
> I wonder how come Win-95 is able to allocate the IRQ ?
> Has anyone faced such problem or anyone can tell what I am doing wrong ?
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers ...
> Shrikant
> 
> 
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