[tulip] IRQ unknown for Accton EN-1216 (ADMtek Comet)

[Bart Jan Kelter]

Hi 

I have some problem getting th etehrnet controller of my new notebook to work.
The notebook  is Topline Amicus 3700 (white box with Topline decal),
Athlon 1Ghz, VIA chipset, Phoenix BIOS and onboard ADMtek 983 AL ethernet.
I'm installing Debian Woody distribtion with 2.4.18 kernel (from floppies,
and like to continue my installation over the network ;) ).

When loading tulip.o dmesg says:

Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001)
PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:09.0. Please try using pci=bi
osirq.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:09.0 to 64
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1c00, 00:90:96:1F:3D:B3, IRQ 0.

Booting with pci=biosirq has no result:

Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:09.0.
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1c00, 00:90:96:1F:3D:B3, IRQ 0.

The listing of /proc/pci:

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 128).
      Master Capable.  Latency=8.  
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xefffffff].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (rev 0).
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=12.
  Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
    Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 0).
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe80000ff].
      I/O at 0x1438 [0x143f].
      I/O at 0x1800 [0x18ff].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 64).
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
    IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      I/O at 0x1420 [0x142f].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  2:
    USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 26).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      I/O at 0x1400 [0x141f].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  4:
    ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 64).
  Bus  0, device   7, function  5:
    Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80).
      IRQ 5.
      I/O at 0x1000 [0x10ff].
      I/O at 0x1434 [0x1437].
      I/O at 0x1430 [0x1433].
  Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter (rev 17).
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
      I/O at 0x1c00 [0x1cff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10000000 [0x100003ff].
  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus Controller (rev 1).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=192.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10001000 [0x10001fff].
  Bus  0, device  12, function  1:
    CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus Controller (#2) (rev 1).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=192.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10002000 [0x10002fff].
  Bus  0, device  13, function  0:
    FireWire (IEEE 1394): PCI device 11c1:5811 (Lucent Microelectronics) (rev 4).
      Master Capable.  Latency=96.  Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=24.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8001000 [0xe8001fff].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: PCI device 5333:8d02 (S3 Inc.) (rev 1).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8100000 [0xe817ffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 [0xf7ffffff].

I've remember ther are some more IRQ issues with this chips and/or driver
which are related to incorrect BIOS configuration.
In my BIOS (Phoenix 1.0C- 6.2-3236) setup menu is no option for pnp-OS 
support to switch off.

Has anybody any clue how to continue?

Regards,
-- 
Bart Jan Kelter