Donald Becker wrote: > > 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. FYI newer kernels can now route irqs just fine.. Granted the user in this thread is running 2.2.x presumeably, but it is no longer true for all kernels that the BIOS must route irqs. We encourage users to set "PNP OS: Yes" in BIOS for current 2.4.x test kernels. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft | It's an old Jedi mind trick. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
