Hi Eric thanks for the help, I spent a considerable time on the phone last night to my friend and its now sorted. As you suggested forcing noacpi worked, suprisingly the onboard card was also fucnctional, so now just 1 NIC ( onboard built in ethernet adaptor). running on INT 9
BR Richard On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 14:48, Eric Fernandez wrote: > 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 > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > Try two things : > - in the bios : "Plug and Play OS" should be set to No > - when booting : boot zith option "noapic" (at boot, press esc, then > type the name of your lilo entry followed by noapic. > > Eric > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
