smc-ultra module loads but base address changes in ifconfig

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From: Jeremy Malcolm
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 00:00

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I am trying to set up a network and I have an ethernet card with an
SMC Ultra chip in it.  The module for this card loads fine and I can
ping its IP address.  dmesg shows that the kernel is using the correct
io and irq addresses (10 and 300, pretty standard).

However when I run ifconfig it shows the irq base address as 310, not
300!  Consequently the networking won't work at all.  I have experimented
by changing the module to wd (which is sort-of compatible with smc-ultra)
but this only made things worse: I started getting kernel error messages
"Tx timed out, lost interrupt?".

My kernel version is 2.0.36.  I don't have any weird hardware (just a 
sound card but I have tried disabling it and it made no difference).
When you cat /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts they come up with the
correct value so I am a bit mystified why the wrong base address is being
attached to the interface.

I would greatly appreciate any advice... thanks!

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From: Jeremy Malcolm <terminus@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Subject: smc-ultra module loads but base address changes in ifconfig
Date: 1998/12/21
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