eepro100 does not detect the link beat on NetGEAR switch FS608v2 !?

[Marc Lijour]

On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:36, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 07:29:22PM -0400, Marc Lijour wrote:
> > I tried the e100 driver with no more luck.
> > But I learnt that my card wants IRQ15 while it is given IRQ9, that might
> > explains something...
>
> Well IRQ15 is normally the second IDE controller, although if you don't
> use it and disabled it, then that is OK.  IRQ9 is most commonly used for
> ACPI, but doesn't have to be.
>
> PCI cards don't get to want anything, they get to say what amount and
> type of resources they would like and then they get told what resources
> (if any) they actually got.  They also have no concept of IRQ numbers,
> only PCI interrupt lines A through D, which the BIOS/OS then assigns to
> a system interrupt number and tells the driver to expect that irq number
> for the device.

Thanks for the explanation

> Lennart Sorensen
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