On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:58:12PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > Brady Hegberg wrote: > > > > My Redhat 7.1 machine seems to be having a prob with its SMC Ultra card. > > It worked fine with 6 but now...well the machine can ping itself but it > > can't ping the other machine on the network. When I try I see the > > lights blink on the hub but nothing gets through... > > > > I see a bunch of these in "dmesg": > > > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > > eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x43, t=101. > > > > Any suggestions? I spent hours searching the web for this error > > yesterday and I couldn't find anything that seemed to apply to me. > > Hmmm, I wonder... Could there be an IRQ sharing problem in kernel 2.4? > > I'm having problems getting a TV tuner card working in my machine. What > with 3 video cards, sound, ethernet, video capture and the onboard ACPI > and USB, (Wait, this may be it, why is ACPI enabled...) there's just not > enough IRQ's to go around. (Thats 8!) As long as I keep the capture card > off the IRQ of my primary AGP video card, everything works fine in > windows. However with the video capture card plugged in, linux freaks > out. I can boot into console mode, but as soon as X starts up, USB > freaks out and shuts off, and so does my ethernet with a similar > message. Leaving me without a mouse or a net connection. > > Though that sounds more like X making things freak out when it > initialises the video cards now that I think of it. Wish there was a way > to make the BIOS assign IRQ's to the AGP card (It won't work unless you > do) but not to the PCI's (They don't need it). > > Blargh. Managing PCI IRQ's is like hearding cats. Big cats. Like lions. > Yeah, thats it... > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list My setup is a bit simpler, but I do have a video card and a TV tuner card. I spent time to ensure that the two used different IRQs, but no matter how I confired the BIOS Linux insisted on sharing the same IRQ (5) between the video and the TV tuner. Anyway, it works fine. I can watch TV, while also using Win4Lin to balance my books using Quicken. Perhaps that's part of it. Although I updated most everything on my system to Redhat 7.1, I'm still running a 2.2.19 kernel. --- Jim Kaufman mailto:jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us home: 952-934-4851 Eden Prairie, MN 55346 fax: 952-937-9832