I've just installed a SCSI host adapter "Mylex Flashpoint LW (BT-950)" into my computer. Everything seemed ok until I realized that the Ethernet card, 3COM 3c509, ISA, _not_ plug and play, has stopped working. The network card is recognized by the kernel but no data goes over it.
Here you have some excerpt from the boot messages: scsi: ***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.1.15 of 17 August 1998 ***** scsi: Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scsi0: Configuring BusLogic Model BT-950 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter scsi0: Firmware Version: 5.02, I/O Address: 0x6000, IRQ Channel: 11/Level scsi0: PCI Bus: 0, Device: 15, Address: 0xE4000000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7 scsi0: Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled scsi0: Synchronous Negotiation: Fast, Wide Negotiation: Enabled scsi0: Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled scsi0: Driver Queue Depth: 255, Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 segments scsi0: Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3 scsi0: Error Recovery Strategy: Default, SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled scsi0: SCSI Bus Termination: Both Enabled, SCAM: Disabled scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-950 Initialized Successfully *** scsi0 : BusLogic BT-950 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31230N Rev: 0510 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi0: Target 0: Queue Depth 28, Synchronous at 10.0 MB/sec, offset 15 scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2069860 [1010 MB] [1.0 GB] eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 a0 24 dd 39 11, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.12 6/4/97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't see any obvious IRQ od I/O conflict: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc # cat interrupts CPU0 0: 320416 XT-PIC timer 1: 4486 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 7673 XT-PIC serial 4: 1678 XT-PIC serial 8: 0 XT-PIC rtc 10: 0 XT-PIC 3c509 11: 144 XT-PIC BusLogic BT-950 12: 25284 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 10354 XT-PIC ide0 15: 7 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc # cat ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0300-030f : 3c509 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 6000-60ff : BusLogic BT-950 9000-9007 : ide0 9008-900f : ide1 What else should I look at? Do you know of any possible incompatibility between the two ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx | http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.1.131 #1 Fri Dec 4 23:22:32 CET 1998 i586 unknown