Re: PCI NE2000 RTL-8029 not detected at boot

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From: Joerg Morbitzer
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:00

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On 20 Jun 2002, Vincent Marty wrote:

: Hi !
: M/B is an Intel Advanced/EV (Endeavour), chipset Intel 430FX, AMI-BIOS
: 1.00.06.CB0, IDE Intel PIIX. Cpu is Intel Pentium 133.
: Until kernel 2.5.14, with boot option "pci=biosirq", I was able to let
: the kernel detect the proper IRQ for my RTL8029-based PCI NE2000
: compatible ethernet card. Starting with kernel 2.5.15 and up to 2.5.23
: this trick doesn't work anymore : the kernel complains that the card is
: using IRQ 0 !
: Any idea ?
: Thks. Vincent
:

Did you try to set the IRQ of your network card manually?
So something like this in your /etc/lilo.conf :

	append = "ether=IRQ,BASE_ADDR,PARAM_1,PARAM_2,NAME"

Check out these two pages for details:

http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/howto/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-9.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-2.html

Regards, Joerg.

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