by I'm trying to get a 53c810 PCI card to work at the same time as
a NE1000 compatible PCI ethernet card. I'm running 1.3.15 of linux,
the BSD SCSI driver. I've got an older motherboard that is not
configured with SDMS. When I boot both cards show up on the same
interrupt. The SCSI wins and the NE driver says it can't share
the irq. In the BIOS Setup screen I can only tell the BIOS which
irq's are in use.
The motherboard is from intel so I called them. The fellow advised me to
run the setup first with the SCSI card and only irq 9 available.
Powerdown. Then the ethernet card with only irq 10 available. Powerdown.
Then put them both back and I should have separate irq's for each. Well,
that didn't work.
I upgraded to the newer version of the BIOS and the scsi card was mapped
to irq 255 (fallthough error catch?) and it didn't work. I tried it with
and without the ethernet card.
I tried the ne driver as a module and loaded it with irq=10. That worked
and showed up in /proc/interrupts as 10 but as 9 in /proc/pci. When I
used ifconfig to start the ethernet, boom! The machine crashed dead.
Anybody see this before?
Kind regards,
Robbin Carlson