I have a Pentium 60 machine at the office which runs dog-slow with
OS/2 or NT on it, and I tried to load linux onto it in an effort to
salvage it. I had some hardware problems with it, and I essentially took
it apart and put it back together again. Then I started getting token-ring
problems.
The ISA token-ring cards made by IBM come in 2 forms : the 16/4
token-ring card and the newer Auto 16/4 token-ring card. The card that was
in my machine was the older variety and it worked happily with OS/2 and NT
- until I took my machine apart. After that reinstalling OS/2 showed that
the box had lost its ability to network.
So I borrowed an Auto 16/4 card and got the box to network. My
BIOS said that the ISA slots in the machine had IRQ's 9 and 10 available
to them. I configured the card to IRQ 10 and got linux networking on it.
Yeah!
The problem is that I dont get to keep the card - and so I need to
get linux running with the older variety.
I looked up the docs for the older card. The dip switches on the
card can be set to use IRQ's 2, 3, 6, or 7 (but not 9, or 10). None of the
4 work. Not only that, but the kernel does not autodetect the IRQ
correctly when the IRQ is set to 2 or 3. The kernel thinks it is IRQ 9
instead.
1. Given the fact that my BIOS talks about IRQ's 9 and 10 for the ISA
card slots, and the fact that the IRQ's on the card cant be set to these
values, is it even worthwhile trying? Bear in mind, that this card did
work in the same box with another OS.
2. Does anyone know what are the parameters that need to be passed to the
kernel / insmod so that it detects the IRQ's correctly?
Thanks in advance,
Kenneth
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