[vortex] 3c905 irq & compile problems

[pyr0man1c]

At 11:00 2002-01-11 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, pyr0man1c wrote:
>
>> i recently purchased two new harddrives, and decided that i wanted to 
>> install linux (debian dist) on the old one, an ibm deskstar 75gxp at 15gb. 
>> When trying this, i encountered two different problems with the 3c59x
>> driver:
>> first when i try to use the binary driver included in debian, it fails to 
>> access any other computer on the network. vortex-diag reports that no irq 
>> has been assigned to the card, and /proc/pci holds no entry for irq 11,
the 
>> irq which the card uses in m$-windoze.
>
>Read
>   http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html
>

i have read that page. the irq is assigned by the bios, right? then why does 
it work in windoze, but not in linux? at boot time, the bios says it has 
identified a network interface, and assigned it irq 11. still, vortex-diag
says the nic has no irq. there's plenty of unassigned irq:s, since i have 
only 3 add-on cards installed in the computer. 

 < pyr0man1c >