Re: PNP and a LAN Card

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On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Mark Riehl wrote:

> I've got an Asus P3BF board, Red Hat 6.2, and an SMC 1211TX EZCard 10/100
> LAN card (it uses the Realtek RTL8139 driver).  The machine dual boots using
> lilo with Win 2K and Linux.
> 
> When I have PNP disabled in the BIOS, Linux sees the card at 0xb400, IRQ 9.
> When I have PNP enabled, Linux sees the card at 0xb400, IRQ 0.
> 
> If I leave PNP turned on, can I just force the card to use IRQ 9 in the
> lilo.conf file?  Is there a better way around this?

No.  Only the motherboard knows how to set up the INT-to-IRQ mapping.  This
must be done by the BIOS.

Read
   http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210		Second Generation Beowulf Clusters
Annapolis MD 21403			410-990-9993

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