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Re: redhat-digest Digest V96 #526
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Sat Nov 9 20:44:39 1996
To: tim@Quantum.Phy.Vanderbilt.Edu
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com, mnelson@dynatec.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Nov 1996 09:46:43 CST."
<199611091546.JAA07937@Quantum.Phy.Vanderbilt.Edu>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 20:41:06 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>I too just recently got a BT958.. The card and drive are WONDERFUL.
>Very fast like you were talking about. But, when I went to reboot,
>there were errors setting up my network as well. The eth0 was
>defined and everything...my 3COM 509 card was found, the address
>and IRQ were right. But my network didn't work.
>
>Till I looked at the IRQ for the 958. Sure enough, BT958 IRQ is
>10 (couldn't find a way to change it either) Look at the 3C509
>and yup, IRQ was 10 as well. So, my advice...check the IRQ on
>both cards. Chances are the Buslogic is IRQ10...so you will
>most likely have to change the eth0 IRQ.
PCI cards get assigned their IRQ from BIOS. If you have ISA
cards using IRQs, you should go into BIOS and exclude those IRQs
from being used. Most BIOS' have an option to do this...
--Donnie
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