Vortex Woes...

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Chris J. Richards wrote:
> I have hit a wall in trying to get my Linux (RedHat 5.2) to play
> nice with my 3Com ethernet card. My current configuration has
> two network cards:
> 
> Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX UTP
> 3Com EtherLink XL PCI 3C900-TPO
> 
> I finally got the former to work by added an option of sa_int=1 which
> allows IRQ sharing for that particular driver.
> I am now stuck on the 3Com card. I have a Compaq Professional
> Workstation 6000. All PCI cards seem to be using IRQ 11 (Matrox
> Millenium II, SCSI card, Netelligent, and the EtherLink). I am not
> sure if this is the problem or not... I am not seeing any of the symptoms
> listed at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/irq-conflict.html.
> 
> Whenever I try to bring the interface up (ifconfig eth0 up) I get:
> 
> 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable

Your SCSI driver isn't sharing the interrupt properly.
Check /proc/interrupts to confirm this.

No driver should use SA_INTERRUPT -- see the bottom of irq-conflict.html

> ncr53c8xx: 53c875 detected
> ncr53c875-0: rev=0x04, base=0xe0080000, io_port=0x5000, irq=11
> 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10baseT at 0x5400, 00:60:97:3a:22:bd, IRQ 11
> TLAN driver, v1.0, (C) 1997-8 Caldera, Inc.
> TLAN: eth1 irq=11 io=5440, Compaq Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX UTP, Rev.
> 16


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