On Monday 09 December 2002 04:52, Joseph Braddock wrote:

> PCI is funny that way.  Your plug and play bios and/or OS have to
> pick some order in which to initialize the cards.  If one of the
> cards has a limited number of IRQs it can use and a different card
> grabs that IRQ first, then the limited card is stuck.  Once the card
> is assigned an IRQ by the bios, the bios won't change it as long as
> that card is put in the original slot.  I've usually have had this
> problem with various Winmodems that require a specific IRQ, but
> another adapter has grabbed it (doesn't matter whether running Linux
> or Windows).  Rearranging the cards usually does the trick.

Yeah, but fynny thing for me, is that in Windows it worked, and in Linux 
it didn't.

Hmm, strange.

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