Re: Problem with dmfe

[Alan Cox]

> server (600MHz Celeron), and strange effects occurred with the Davicom DM9102
> network card. It was active but apparently VERY slow, 85% packet loss in ping.
> I could connect to the machine but could not do anything useful. The system had
> to be rebooted into the previous configuration (2.2.12) which works fine.

It could be an IRQ routing problem. It could be a dmfe driver problem. Does
using the tulip driver in 2.4.x with it make it any happier ?

> Thus, device 00:01.0 (video card) shares IRQ with the net card. Could it be
> the source of the problem? Under 2.2.12, pciutils show the following info
> for these devices:

PCI irq sharing is part of the spec.

> Thus, it says IRQ for the VGA card is 0, not 3 (also strange).

[VGA one is disabled I think]