Lanbit Realtek 8139 problems

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Jeff Bate wrote:

> I have a Lanbit Realtek 8139 card that I have been unable to make work
> on my dual P133 Micronics M54P board.  The card works fine in a
> different machine.  I am using Linux kernal 2.2.1.  
> The card appears to be recognized correctly when the rtl8139 module is
> loaded:
> 
> 	eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xfc00, IRQ 0,
> 00:20:18:88:99:2a.

IRQ 0 means that no IRQ has been assigned.

> The IRQ 0 does not seem right though.  I pulled pci-utils 1.10 and tried
> to use setpci to change the INTERRUPT_LINE or INTERRUPT_PIN.  I could
> not seem to change either of them.

That's won't change the interrupt steering.
Read
   http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/irq-conflict.html

Summary: you must change the PCI BIOS setup parameters, probably the one
misnamed "PnP OS".


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