RE: Network failures with ACPI enabled (kernel 2.4, 2.6) PROBLEM FOUND!!!!!!

Brown, Len
2003-12-30T21:17:47Z

> > The broadcom card gets IRQ 5 and the Xircom card gets IRQ3.
> > Both IRQ are non-shared. Well IRQ 5 was shared with USB, but for
> > testing purposes I removed the USB modules.

Can you put the xircom in the slot where the broadcom lived and
See if it too gets IRQ5 and fails with the EPP set to OFF?

Doing so would suggest that this failure is device independent
and IRQ related.

> You won't believe me but I found out what was causing the problem.
> Since I never use the parallel port on this notebook I turned
> it OFF in the BIOS.
> Setting it to AUTOMATIC mode solved my issues.

> The Linux-ACPI still has a problem somewhere since I don't see the
> network timeouts in WinXP, if I turn off the parport.
> For me it looks like that the parport and the internal card share
> something, either ACPI or hardware wise and by turning off the parport
> the network card somehow changes too.

It may be I/O port ranges rather than IRQs at the bottom of this one.

-Len

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