Greetings, all.
I've kinda hit a brick wall with my latest installation of Mandrake 6.0.
I've got a hunch as to what might have caused it, but no clue on how to fix
it.
A bit of background. I had Mandrake 6 running dual boot with Win98 on this
machine earlier. I added a hard drive, put Win98 2nd edition on one
drive(2.1 gig), and re-partitioned my other drive (4.3 gig) to run solely
linux.
Here's where the weird part comes in. My network card (3com 3c509) and my
sound card (SB16 genuine, not a clone) refuse to get along now. My hunch is,
when I installed 98 (I did this first, since I've heard of problems if done
the other way around), the Plug & Pray set the hardware up with different
values that they had originally. Linux wants to use IRQ 10 for the network
card, which of course is the IRQ that the sound card wants.
I've tried tinkering with the isapnp.conf file, setting the sound card to
use different i/o and irq settings, all to no avail. I've tried compiling
the parameters into the kernel, still no go. I can't seem to get the network
card to let go of the IRQ10. Anyone know what file this is stored in during
the setup phase? Or is this something that might actually be rooted in the
BIOS?
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Wayne
