A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I`m fairly new to all this so before I go to the extent of replacing > the kernel, which I hadn`t intended to do until potato was the stable > version, please could someone tell me in laymans terms how to change > the IRQ that this NIC uses even if only to eliminate the IRQ as a > possibility.
That depends greatly on the card; can't help you there. > BTW I don`t know if this is relevant but if I do "lsmod" the at1700 > driver doesn`t show and if I do "modprobe at1700" I get this message: > > FUDO2:/home/paul# modprobe at1700 > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/at1700.o: init_module: Device or resource busy > > Is this important? It certainly is - it means the driver for the ethernet card isn't detecting the card. Do you know what i/o port it's using? Knowing that would greatly simplify getting networking to work. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein