network card

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (-dsr-)]

Abhishake Pathak wrote:

> Sorry about my earlier email. it was a little vague and unclear.  I
> have a 3com 905B.  I installed mandrake 9.0.  It seems as if mandrake
> is failing to bring the interfase (eth0) at startup eventhough it
> is in the list when i type in "lsmod".  I am unable to activate
> it manually either.  I looked at the syslog and it seems as if my
> firewire, soundcard and network card have the same IRQ.  Therefore it
> tries to assign the network card an IRQ of 0 and hence i get a message
> saying something like "IRQ 0 will not work".  There seems to be an IRQ
> conflict.  What can i do to fix this? (hopefully this is the write
> info needed and explains the problem properly)

Is the kernel loading the 3c90x driver, or the 3c59x driver?

Check BIOS settings on your PC -- look for anything related to PCI
interrupts.

Change the physical slot that the card is in.

-dsr-