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
> >>
> >>
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