Need help in setting up NIC

["Kapoor, Nishikant X" <Nishikant.X.Kapoor@nspco.com>]

Hi all

I am having some problems in installing a 'SMC Elite 16T' NIC card in my PC
running RH5.1, kernel 2.2.2 and would appreciate if someone can help me get
it going.

The NIC card is recognized during boot up: 
Apr 30 05:10:16 genx kernel: smc-ultra.c:v2.00 6/6/96 Donald Becker
(becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Apr 30 05:10:16 genx kernel: eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x340, 00 00 C0 A2 EA 97,
IRQ 10 memory 0xc8000-0xcbfff.

But, dmesg shows lots of these error messages:
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x43, t=20500.

Linux-networking newsgroup makes it sound like an IRQ conflict but looking
through the IRQs, there doesn't seem to be any conflicts.
nkapoor:/home/nkapoor> cat /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       
  0:     753300          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       7973          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  3:     264497          XT-PIC  serial
  5:          4          XT-PIC  soundblaster
 10:          0          XT-PIC  SMC Ultra
 12:     365279          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:      13874          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         48          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

nkapoor:/home/nkapoor> ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:A2:EA:97
          inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:0 errors:13053 dropped:0 overruns:39
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x350 Memory:c8000-cc000 

*** Base address in 'dmesg' being different from base address in 'ifconfig'
is normal; says Ethernet HOWTO ***

Does anyone know what could be the problem here ?

Thanks
Nishi
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