Re: Ethernet errors

Brian A May (bmay@dgs.monash.edu.au)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:30:11 +1000


On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:26:39AM +1000, Brian A May wrote:
> Fair enough, but I still having similar problems with an ISA NE2000
> card. Alan Cox once told me that the cheap set was known to be good, and
> it must be an interrupt conflict problem. While I disagreed with the
> interrupt conflict (nothing else uses IRQ 11), I did change the IRQ from
> 11 to 15. I thought it fixed the problem, but it still re-occurs.

Before anyone gets confused, I probably better stress on this point:

> These look very similar to me. Both computers are completely different,
> the only thing in common is that they are both 486.

The NE2000 adaptor is in another computer (100MHz 486) then the
Etherexpress (I think, but not sure, 40MHz 486).

-- 
Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>

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