On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:28 am, you wrote: > 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
there may be a diagnostic utility on the drivers disk that came with the card. you may have to copy it to a dos startup disk.
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