Most bios allow you to allocate an IRQ for legacy drivers. Try and allocate IRQ11 to the realtek, and the bios should move the USB elsewhere. This seems to happen occaisionally on older boards - newer ones tend to work fine.
BillK On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:30, Mark Fisher wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Im trying to install gentoo on a new box for a m8. While ive installed gentoo > many times previously, I havent come across this particular kind of problem. > > The box is a Shuttle sv24 with an on-board realtek 8139 NIC. The LiveCD [with > no special options passed] detects the card on IRQ11 and uses the 8139too > module quite happily. The 2 USB hub's are also detected on the same IRQ. > > For the install, I selected both the realtek 8139too and 8139cp modules just > in case. Unfortunately when booting the new install, gentoo doesnt say > anything about eth0. When I manually insmod the driver or attempt to assign > an IP to the device, it say's the device is unknown/not found. > > Looking carefully at the dmesg output however, there is a section about > conflicting devices on IRQ 11 [and it lists the usb drivers loaded], so I > tried disabled the usb hub in the bios [the keyb/mouse are ps2] but this > didnt seem to help. > > The only other message that seemed to be of any relevance was 'ds: no socket > driver found' - but after carefully checking the kernel options to that of 2 > other gentoo boxen I have, I cant see anything obvious which could be causing > the problem. > > Like I said, I get the impression its an IRQ-level problem as opposed to a > driver-level problem, as the hardware isnt even detected, so how can a driver > talk to it? For the record I have double and triple checked that the 'allow > shared irq's' in menuconfig is checked :P > > TIA :) > > - -- > Mark > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/LakPzrmqzOOQUj8RArncAKCtmKzp5GZO7ZIk+IBaJrb3wMNPqgCgn4Wj > 6S4OW0kjlJqd13QEZU1admI= > =W9oL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
