If your NE2000 cards are PCI (and it appears to be so, from the driver
that is loading), then the below advice is not correct.
Question: Do you have your BIOS set to NOT have a PnP OS? This is what you
want, so that the BIOS itself will take care of assigning IRQ's and I/O
addresses, rather than waiting for the OS to do it.
Another question: What chipset are these cards using? I know there are at
least two Realtek "native" drivers, for the 8019 chipset and the 8139
chipset. Unless you know for sure that they want the ne2k-pci driver, you
might want to try a different module:
modprobe rtl8019
as an example.
Since I am jumping into the middle of this thread, I have probably missed
something, like the possibility that you have already done the things I am
suggesting...
Hope this helps,
Dave
On Monday 09 April 2001 16:37, thus spake David Rankin:
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > A look in /var/log/messages, however, says even more
> >
> > <date/time> workhorse insmod:
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: invalid parameter irq
> > That prompted me to run linuxconf and remove the irq setting, seeing
> > as that entry was optional, and restart, (windoze training ;-) but the
> > messages did not change. It is still bellyaching about the invalid irq
> >
> > My 2 machines are loaded with Realtek NE2000 compatible cards. These
> > talk to each other in dos, so it is a linux config problem.
>
> Declan, this may or may not help, but I remember reading that on some
> NE2000 cards the IRQ is set via software. Evidently, the interface with
> the soft IRQ has to be run in DOS to configure the card. I remember
> reading that there isn't a Linux soft IRQ interface for a majority of
> the NE2000 cards. So, if your Linux box is complaining about an invalid
> IRQ, you may need to use a DOS machine to change the NE2000 IRQ to
> something that will not conflict with your Linux box and then try and
> bring the card back up under Linux with the new soft IRQ set.
>
> Just my two cents....
>
> --
> David C. Rankin
> Nacogdoches, Texas
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