Hmm, tough luck then. Is there no way to access the internal bios ? Try searching on the manufacturer site, maybe there is some windows utility you can use. I have yet not seen a computer, be it pc or laptop that is completely inaccessable.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Fain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Oleg Kobets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Nathan Fain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:31 AM Subject: Re: disabling a built in pci device from linux > the problem is that I want to dissable the internal firewire card and > use one that I plug in via pcmcia. reason being that the internal one > doesn't support certain devices and YET the program for said device only > looks for the device on the first firewire card. > > Oleg Kobets wrote: > > >recompile the kernel without the firewire support or disable the module from > >loading ? > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Nathan Fain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:08 PM > >Subject: disabling a built in pci device from linux > > > > > > > > > >>I'm trying to disable the internet firewire device on a compaq presario > >>1700. There is no option in the bios to do so so I'm trying to find a > >>way to do this inside linux. (2.4 kernel, suse8.1 system) > >> > >>Any ideas? > >> > >>thanks > >> > >> > >> > >>================================================================= > >>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >>the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >>echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >================================================================= > >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
