On Wednesday 31 January 2001 17:39, you wrote:
> > Ummm try turning off PnP OS in your BIOS--reliable as a rain
> > dance but what
> > do you have to lose?
>
> Last night I tried both on and off, to no avail. And I installed Win98SE
> and the card works in that, so I know it's not bad hardware. So I've
> narrowed it down to IRQs (which I thought didn't matter any more in this
> brave new world of PCI, but what do I know?). I ripped out the sound card,
> just in case, leaving the network card, video card (Matrox Millennium II),
> and a Voodoo 1 card. And, I figured out, USB. It's not a card, but it was
> using an IRQ. The same IRQ as my NIC. (Different I/O range, but same IRQ)
> No matter what I did, no matter how I changed it in Windows (using the
> handy-dandy Device Manager), it always set the IRQ of my NIC and the IRQ
> for the USB to the same thing. That's probably due to the whole "IRQ
> routing" thing I know nothing about, right? So I looked around in the BIOS
> and found an entry "Assign IRQ to USB". I set that to disabled. But it
> didn't solve my problem. It did, however generate different output during
> the bootup. (Now, work with me here, I was reading it as fast as I could as
> it scrolled by, but this should be close.)
>
> Either way, with "IRQ for USB" enabled or disabled, I get this:
>
> <4> Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
> <4> Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
> <4> Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
> <4> PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX (8086/7110) at 00:07.0
>
> If I disable "IRQ for USB", I also get this, :
>
> <4> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2
> <4> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.0
>
> Does any of that make sense to anyone? Cause I'm pretty sure it relates to
> my problem, but being a Java programmer by trade, not a kernel hacker, I'm
> a bit stumped. :-)
>
> Eaon
>
> p.s. This may be getting way beyond a cooker problem, and if it is, feel
> free to tell me to junk the whole thing and do something different. ;-)
I think you are on the right track... Assign the USB to an unused IRQ and
try swapping slots (some PCI slots will handle only certain interrupts, but
since interrupts can be shared, everything should be OK, right? ...Wrong,
espcially with NICs). It should not be necessary to pull cards.
Question. Is the NIC in the slot next to where you would have an agp video
card? If so, it tries to share an interrupt with AGP... Doesn't work very
well--activate network and screen blanks. This is true only of some
AGPs--RAGE IIC and Intel EtherPro 10/100 were infamous for this.
Civileme
