On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 15:17, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Negative. In further investigations I found the second adapter > is sharing it's IRQ with eth0, which is one of the onboard > 3Com 3c980-TX 10/100baseTX NICs. I've tried to block the > corresponding interrupt, but this fscking BIOS can't select > irq lines per PCI slot. It can only block irq's generally?!? (From the "not quite on topic" desk...) I've fought this problem multiple times with various pieces of hardware. Sometimes toggling the BIOS's "Plug and Play OS" flag works, but most of the time I find that I have to physically move the cards around from slot to slot. If your Motherboard is well documented it should list the primary candidate IRQs for each slot, keeping in mind that AGP and built-in cards grab resources as well. With newer Motherboards (especially higher end and SMP boards, but increasingly desktop systems also) it is often possible to get the IRQ controller out of the older XT-PIC mode and into the newer IO-APIC-level mode, so that you can access IRQs above 15. While this doesn't guarantee that you won't have conflicting IRQs it definitely gives you a leg up. Good luck.
