From: Peter McMenamin
to get my PCI BIOS to assign an IRQ other than 0 to my network card.
What type of card? ISA? PCI?. PCI sould work, you can probably define an options line for it, there are samples in /etc/modules.conf If it is ISA, there is still isapnp.conf, and the isapnp stuff. Ask, if nessesarry. I remember some fiddling with that too, but neither with what type of card nor which machine... Anyway, I am running short of IRQ's in this box... My computer is a H-P Pavillion 8160. The only thing I can tell about the motherboard is that the main circuit board in the box has this written on it 'TX97XV'. I've tried to get help from H-P's website but they only tell me that my computer is out of warrenty and that they don't know anything about LInux and that if I want MS help I must pay. Well if I had money I'd buy a computer under warenty wouldn't I? The BIOS setup utility is a Phoenix BIOS version 4.06. When I contact them they refer me to H-P and tell me that there should be a toggle for PCI-BIOS but there is not. It does have a way to reserve IRQs for legacy ISAs and as I have a PCI card I've left all IRQs unreserved. In any case this does not change anything with respect to my situation. I've thought of contacting Open BIOS but I really do not understand what they are doing over there. The card is a ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'Winbond 89C940' . I seem to have sucsessfully installed the ne2k-pci.c module. Here is what 'dmesg' says about the card; WARNING: The PCI BIOS assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which isunlikely to work!. You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line. ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'Winbond 89C940' at I/O 0xfca0, IRQ 0. eth0: Winbond 89C940 found at 0xfca0, IRQ 0, 00:20:78:19:91:38. I've been in touch with Suse installation support. In fact that is how I got here. After going a couple of rounds with me thy told me to do two things 1) Buy O'Reilly's Running Linux 2) Go bother those people on the suse-linux-e list But I already own the book and, since I haven't found an answer to my problem in the list's archives. I'm here bothering you. It seems to me that what needs to be done is the IRQ assignment needs to be changed. I've moved the card to three different slots and gotten no change. I installed a new harddrive and in the thrashing stumbling process I almost reinstalled 6.4 (in the end I didn't have to do this but it did give me the chance to find out if a reinstallation would solve my IRQ problem) and found that indeed something outside of Suse 6.4 was assigning IRQ0 to my net card. I'm beginning to think that I really just am screwed. I don't want to buy another card. How do I manipulate PCI BIOS? Well I've either said too much or not enough. TIA, Peter