On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, David Scott +44 1383 821921 wrote: > <snip> > > NE*0000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 4f 4c 03 ca 8a > > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3 > <snip> > > com1: at atbus1The device below will clobber IRQ3. > > You have two devices at the same IRQ > > This won't work. Reconfigure your hardware and try again. > > com1: port = 2f8, spl = 6, pic =3. > <snip> > > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A > > tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16550A > <snip> > > It seems to me that the problem is that com1 and ne2000 are using the same > IRQ. > Can you change the IRQ of the ethernet card to something other than 3? There > may be physical switches.
Com1 - that's the printer, yes? So would unplugging it from the machine work? As I don't think there are physical switches on the network card (and flu is bad enough to make me reluctant to take the case off to have a look)... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
