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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