[tulip] Re: Netgear....

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Lyle Bickley wrote:

> I've noticed that when using Netgear FA310tx boards with the 82C169C
> "Tulip" chip and 700MHz+ Athlon or Duron ASUS motherboards , that IRQ's
> are NOT recognized by the tulip driver [displays IRQ 0 in the log]. 

Easy answer
   http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html

Summary: this is a BIOS setup issue.

> This is true of both Linux 2.2.x or Linux 2.4 kernels. 

The 2.4 kernel can supposedly access the ACPI methods to turn on the IRQ
routing.  The haven't been many reports on how reliable this is.


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