On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 09:35, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi All, > I've persuaded a friend after a lot of nagging to move over to linux, so > he's bought the boxed MDK 9.1. > > The onboard network card was found but the interface eth0 would'nt come > up as it complained the device was busy. > > So onboard NIC disabled in the bios and a card fitted , realtek 8139 > clone. > Eth0 comes up OK and data goes out , but not seeing anything incoming. > The card is OK , checked on another machine. > However the interrupt its using is INT 6, which if I remember correct is > the interrupt reserved for the floppy drive. > This makes me a little suspicious !, > Is there away of forcing the interrupt for the NIC to use,its plug and > pray . > > Thanks > Richard
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