On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote:
> I found out why my eepro100 won't work, but I can't seem to fix it.
>
> Even though my nic is not in the slot next to AGP, my AGP card and nic both
> have IRQ11. I have no idea why it still works in windows. It doesn't even
> show up as a conflict in the device manager list. But if I click on
> resources for both cards, they both have IRQ11.
>
> I have my BIOS set for "NO PnP OS". The nic is jumerless (of course), and I
> can't change the IRQ in windows. The DOS setup program that came with the nic
> won't run on my machine (it proclaims that the card has not been installed in
> the machine. I hate DOS.) Any ideas on changing the IRQ?
>
> Also, I found another problem. I don't know if it is related to the IRQ
> problem or not. When I try to manually load my eepro100 module, I get the
> message "eepro100.o: eepro100.o: No such file or device". The eepro100.o
> module is in the appropriate subdirectory of /lib/modules. What's this all
> about?
>
> I'm trying to learn something, so I appreciate any suggestions,
> but I think I'll be looking for a different nic (a 3com 3c905-TX; I've heard
> that they're the best). 3+ weeks of trying to get this piece of junk to work is
> more than enough.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
Jeremy,
If your BIOS supports it, you should be able to specify which card is
assigned what IRQ. Reboot, press delete when prompted, then look for
PnP/PCI setup.
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