[tulip] Adaptec ANA-6944A/TX

Tue Nov 6 16:42:01 2001

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Ron Reed wrote:

> Has anyone gotten the ANA-6944A/TX multiport ethernet card to work with
> RedHat 7.1? The kernel is 2.4.3-6.
> 
> If I try to do anything with the card, it locks the system up tight. The
> system is a Gigabyte 6OX motherboard with the latest BIOS (F4) and a P-III
> 1gHz CPU. Any clues or pointers on this problem?

This is very likely an IRQ mapping problem, not a problem with the
driver itself.

Which driver are you trying?  What is the detection message?  What does
'lspci' report about the IRQ mapping?

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