Ok well the network card is clearly not damaged because Windblows can use it fine. The soundcard can't grab an irq either. The network card and soundcard are usually assigned irq 11 and 12 respectively. Ifconfig tells me that eth0 does not exist. I haven't even got Debian installed so of course /etc/resolve.conf and /etc/network or whatever wouldn't have been configured as im having this problem during the install when I tell it to configure the network via dhcp so that I can install the base system and so that apt can have somewhere to get packages. If the problem persists I may just go out and buy a new NIC as the doc for the 3c59x driver does say that the 3com 3c900 series of cards doesn't work as well as some of the others. But the stupid thing is this did work with at least 2 distros of Linux including Debian before. So I must have inadvertently broke something...question is what that thing is? ----- Original Message ----- From: "'Georgina Joyce'" <gena@gena-j.net> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: Re: wtf? > Hi > > Only guessing but you state that the kernel assigns irq 0, is this stated in > /var/log/dmesg? > > If so, what is being detected prior to the network? What irq's can your > card use? Is there a sound card grabing the irq first? > > Is it possible that the card has become damaged? > > Is it that you haven't configured /etc/network/interfaces and > /etc/resolv.conf, so the system doesn't have a configuration for eth0? It > is suposed to be eth0? What does # 'ifconfig eth0' > reveal? > > hth > Gena > > >Ok I have a problem. The Debian kernel seems to be assigning my thernet card > >to irq 0. WTF is with that. I have PNPOS set to no in the BIOS. All the > >IRQ's are set to auto as well. This config has worked fine in the past and > >my hardware hasn't changed at all since the last Linux install so I don't > >get this? It's really annoying so if anybody knows wtf is going on here > >please let me know. > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >