Re: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work

[Rich Clark]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:

> Rich Clark wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This is assuming that the card is a PnP one, i.e. that the BIOS _can_
> tell it to use a specific IRQ.
> If the card is software-programmable but _not_ PnP, this will _not_
> work, because the IRQ used is configured on the card (in some memory
> register that the BIOS doesn't know about) and that's all the _card_
> knows about. 
> It was that way, e.g., with older 3C509 cards, also with a lot
> of NE2000 compatibles (those that did not have jumpers).
> 
>

Re-read the thread *carefully*.  He's already told us that it's not
jumpered and there's no software config available. 

-- 
Rich Clark

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