[H-GEN] PCI & IRQs

[Frank Brand]

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>Hmm. The D-Link card came with the rtl driver so I'm assuming their not
>screwing me around. Mind you their Linux drivers are downloaded in .EXE
>self-extracting Zip format :-)
>

OK it is a Realtek card - pity the Tulip cards are usually really easily set
up.

The 3COM 595 cards are PCI 10/100 IIRC. I have had 3COM cards running with
Realtek based cards in Windows but never tried it under Linux. The Realtek
cards are really so generic I am a bit surprised at the problem. It sounds
like it might be a driver problem unless the cards are both sitting on the
same memory address. As we have said before, cards can share the same IRQ so
long as the memory address is different. Is it possible to create a small
boot disk in DOS that will allow the network to be set up. If you can do
that and check if the cards are working. Alternatively just disconnect the
HDD and slot in another HDD...even a 500 Mb and load up Windows to check if
the cards get set up properly in Win (may sound unpalitable but usually the
Win drivers are the most mature drivers and this will tell you if the cards
are working properly).




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