[Techtalk] Multiple NICs, Bad IRQs?

[the sunlover2]

Changing IRQ manually can be easy for some NICs: Go to the web site of the 
NIC vendor(s) and find/download the support software. Run it and you will be 
able to do the job. I just did it on my Compaq NIC two weeks ago.
Good luck!

Alex C.
SCNA,SCSA,SSAT,MCSE,MCP+I
Agents in U.S. & Canada are welcomed!



>From: Julie <jockgrrl at austin.rr.com>
>Reply-To: jockgrrl at austin.rr.com
>To: techtalk at linuxchix.simegen.com
>Subject: [Techtalk] Multiple NICs, Bad IRQs?
>Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 09:43:02 -0500
>
>Greets,
>
>I have two NICs -- Netgear FA311s -- in my server/gateway machine
>and the first NIC, eth0, has horrid performance.  I've swapped
>everything I can imagine swapping.  Last night I even rewired the
>connection from the server to my Ethernet switch.  The highest
>perfomance I get is 300KB/s.  Every other machine in the house
>can talk to every other machine at 4MB/s or more.
>
>The only thing I can see is that eth0 has an IRQ of 5, which is
>lower priority than almost everything else.  ifconfig eth0
>reports thousands of framing errors -- if I switch cables, ports
>on the switch, cards, etc -- I see the same thing.
>
>The other NIC is connected to a cable modem.  It has no errors
>and works like a dream.
>
>I hate to think this is all being caused by the wrong IRQ because
>I don't know how to change the IRQ on these NICs.  They have no
>jumpers and the BIOS is setting the IRQ for me.
>
>HELP!
>--
>Julianne Frances Haugh             Life is either a daring adventure
>jockgrrl at austin.rr.com                 or nothing at all.
>					    -- Helen Keller
>
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