On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:10:14 -0400
Marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> For some reason I cannot get my ethernet to accept any other irq except for 5
> where my sound resides and they are definitely conflicting. I have gone into
> the bios as suggested and turned off power management, plug & play, freed up
> some irq's but the ethernet seems to just want 5. I have not tried to move
> the sound because I plan to install vmware and it wants the sound at irq 5.
> Does anyone have any suggestions here? I have the realtek chip 8139 that uses
> the 8139too driver. I am using LM8.2 on my brand new Athlon XP 1600+ 512 megs
> of ram machine. I purchased the OSS commercial sound which works well if I
> take the ethernet of f 5, but then I cannot get on the net. Any help will
> be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Marcia
Don't you have a free PCI slot which gives a different IRQ for the NIC? Or
does the BIOS allow you to assign IRQ's to PCI slots? Good luck :)
-Frans
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