thanx for that mircea.
i tried moving the resources in the bios from 5 to 9, 10 and 11. it
changes it in the bios and linux picks it up on the new settings. good
trick that. :] same problem though. i guess i can count resource
problems out. it would seem that maybe the full duplex setting will be
the problem at this stage. <fingers crossed>
if you could email me that util it would be fabulous. =) i have free dos
on this machine already installed aswell. =)
this is real strange. this card worked in one machine just fine. maybe
somehow the settings on the eprom have been changed. weird.
thanx heaps again.
kristof kowalski // [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mircea Ciocan wrote:
>
> Hi Kris & all
>
> First of all try to turn the full duplex mode off, unfortunately I only
> can do this with the included setup utility that is a dos prog but works
> under Free DOS (I can e-mail you if you don't have it).
> Second don't try to change the interrupt, is assigned at the boot time
> by the PCI chip set and can't be changed so easy when the system is
> running. The assigned int. must be OK.
> Third and probably your cause of troubles is an ISA card ( sound cards
> and old scanner cards comes to mind first) that use that interrupt but
> don't announce it to the PCI bus as occupied so the chip set assigns it
> but is also used by the card of ISA bus, this is a cause of unpaired
> pain & sufferance if the said ISA card doesn't have a Linux driver and
> silently grab the int.
> This can be easy fixed by going in the BIOS setup and changing
> "Plug&Play" configuration or so to not automatically assign resources
> but manually control them and mark the IRQ5 to go on "LEGACY ISA". On
> the next reboot the PCI chip set will give you another int. and your
> problems will disappear.
>
> HTH
> Mircea C.
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