On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:17:00PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Don Seiler wrote: > > > > >hullo. > > > > > >I'm having trouble getting my Intel EtherExpress card online. Using > > >modconf, when I try at add the "eexpress" module, it first does an > > >autoprobe and returns this: > > >eexpress > > > > > >io = 0x300 > > >irq = 0 (IRQ value read from EEPROM) > > > > Impossible. The irq is between 1 and 15. IRQ 0 is the CPU. > > Sorry John, but IRQ 0 does happen and generally indicates something > not very nice has happened. I've seen this happen with the POS HP > Pavilion I have here. It went away when I upgraded to kernel 2.4.2 > and enabled PnP in the kernel, so I assume the problem is the PnP > stuff is going wrong during boot. > > -- > Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better > Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton > It's possible that you (I mean - Don) have 'PnP OS Installed' (or similar) option set to 'Yes' ('enabled' or something...) in BIOS - I had the same problem with a PCI Ethernet card (IRQ was 0 and it didn't work). AFAIK this works only under M$-Win - for linux (and probably other OSes) you have to set this option to 'No' - the BIOS will assign IRQ resources (when the option set to 'Yes' - BIOS leaves this to OS...). You can type 'cat /proc/pci' to check yourself IRQ settings that your linux kernel sees presently for PCI-bus devices. tom.
