Re: [Trinux-talk] 3c59x/vortex driver not seen as eth0

[P60 <akd...@ka...>]

Hi,

I am using the vortex driver for my NIC and it works well.
But your problem reminds me to an issue I once had with another card
(3c509). At that time I had an IRQ-conflict (graphics-card and NIC shared an
IRQ).
NIC was detected during boot but NOT activated by trinux.
The simple solution was to reconfigure the NIC to work with another
IRQ-number.

Perhaps this helps.
Arne

Subject: [Trinux-talk] 3c59x/vortex driver not seen as eth0


> This may be a known issue, but I couldn't find a workaround...
>
> My laptop has a minipci 3c59x (vortex driver) ethernet adapter in it.  Not
> PCMCIA.  During boot, it is detected and installed as eth0, but it is not
> advertised as eth0 in the dmesg output.  As a result, the netcfg script
> doesn't "see" it when it parses dmesg and it doesn't initialize the
> interface.
>
> Can anyone suggest a workaround?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --Matt