WD/SMC 8013 NIC

[Brian Kelsay]

Is it possible that something else is using IRQ 10 and thus preventing the
NIC from binding to IRQ 10?

-----Original Message-----
From: crash3m at crosswinds.net [mailto:crash3m at crosswinds.net]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:09 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: WD/SMC 8013 NIC

Using IRQ3 gets the card to work, but then what about my serial port (which
linux
looks for on irq3?)

mike neuliep wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've used this SMC card in a firewall I built once and had a little
trouble
> with it.  Here's the problems and what I did to fix it:
>
>         Problem: works fine in win32, kernel did not see card even though
>                 compiled into kernel
>
>         solution: disable plug & play on card, use manual jumpers (mine
was a
>                 jumpered and batteried card), jumper to IRQ3, INT10 io300
>                 Then compile driver as a module and load as a module
(think I
>                 specified irq, int and io on insmod command line)
>
> I don't know if there was another way, I'm sure there was, however this is
what
> worked for me.  Hope this helps!
>
>         Mike