Arnie,
Good reply!
I am thinking about upgrading my network to 100-base-t (& getting rid of
my coax backbone!) now that I have cable. Unfortunately, (it would
seem) all 100-base-t cards are PCI - so I would have to do an upgrade to
a PCI based system.
Most of the PCI stuff I have seen is auto-set (like you said), but it
would be interesting if you could "fix" the setting for a slot.
I will have to look into this myself.
Jim
Arnie Rothenbaum wrote:
> This may not apply to Compaq Deskpro but with most clone motherboards,
> the IRQ for the PCI card is inherited by the IRQ assigned to the PCI
> slot. Is there a way to get into the BIOS (Compaq F10) and assign a
> unique IRQ to the slot rather than accepting the default of AUTO (which
> may be the assignment, as it is in most clones).
>
> Also, when you configure STN, have you tried AUTO on the IRQ. This is a
> must with the ISA 3Com 3C509B NIC. If you set STN with the IRQ that the
> 3C509B is set to (via the 3c5x9cfg.exe), STN doesn't recognize the
> card. It must be set to AUTO. Maybe this is the case with your setup?
>
> Good Luck,
> Arnie
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I have bought STN and want to configure a Compaq Deskpro with two
> > > Realtek 8139 NICs. In whatever way I build the disk I cant get it to
> > > work.
> > >
> > > The configdisk that comes with the NICs cant be used to change the IRQ.
> > > Everything is auto. They both work at IRQ11 with different i/o mem
> > > (0x1400 and 0x1800)
> > >
> > > I there someone who knows the answer?
> >
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