[tulip] 3com905

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Carsten Cimander wrote:

> I have built in 3 3com905TX in a linux box. Network cards work fine
> normally. 

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

> 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).
However, the hangs that you report might not be interrupt related. Try
running vortex-diag (see http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html) before
and after the hang occurs. Also try to get a newer driver (if you haven't
already).

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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