Half/full duplex

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Stavros Kassinos wrote:

> thank you for your response. I checked the /etc/conf.modules and as i thought
> was the case, no options were set.
> 
> This card is sitting in a Dell machine and thus shares the same IRQ (IRQ 10)
> with the NIC (a Kingston 110TX) using the tulip driver. Do you think the IRQ
> could be an issue here? I tried to switch the  3c905 with a LinkSys, but that
> card also uses the tulip driver (as the Kingston) and it didn't work, I was
> told that 2 NICs with the same driver can sometimes conflict.

The IRQ isn't a issue -- the Ethernet drivers share without problems.

Try an updated Tulip driver with the Linksys (presumably a new PNIC rather
than the old 21140-based card).

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