[vortex-bug] RedHat 6.2 and two 3c905B cards

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Thomas Mandl wrote:

> Routing tables/ifconfig are setup properly. When looking at the 'dmesg
> output' both 3c905B cards appear (one at IRQ 10 and one at IRQ15). I do
> not believe it's a hardware/IRQ conflict, but rather some problem with
> the network drivers for these cards.

IRQ15 is reserved in most setups for IDE. I've never seen a NIC taking
this IRQ, even in non-IDE setups, so I believe that you do have a hardware
conflict.

Regards,

Bogdan Costescu

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