rasmus@napc.uucp (Rasmus Lerdorf) (03/14/91)
I am running AT&T V/386 Rel 3.2.2 on a Dell 425E (486-EISA). I have a Wangtek 150 Meg tape drive using IRQ 5. COM1 is using IRQ4 and I have a 3c503 (3-Com ethernet card) which defaults to use IRQ3. This means I lose my second serial port. That sucks! I tried getting the ethernet card to run on software IRQ9 (HW2), but it didn't seem to work. That sucks too. So I am running the ethernet card on IRQ3 and I have a 386 running PC/NFS over the ethernet. It seems to work fine. That doesn't suck. However, when I boot the unix machine I get two ethernet related errors: enetreset: cannot open device: no such device or address i552pump: cannot open device: no such device Everything still seems to work, but I hate errors, so that sucks as well. Questions: 1) Is there any reason I shouldn't be able to run the ethernet card on IRQ9? (I stuck a 9 in the e3B device file.) 2) Where are those errors coming from at boot-time, and if they really mean what I think they mean, why does my ethernet still work? 3) I have a 3c505 card sitting here. 16-bit as opposed to 8-bit ethernet card. The AT&T TCP manuals don't mention this card as being supported, has anybody tried it? Will it work? -- Rasmus Lerdorf calgary!ajfcal!napc!rasmus 1020-64 Ave NE, Calgary NovAtel Advanced Product Concept Development Alberta, Canada T2E 7V8