Re: Installation Problems..please help..it's URGENT!

[Per Kristiansen <perk crb oslo no>]

>> stnick slip net wrote:
>
>>   I have had similar problems with Adaptec cards under SCO....  Not too
>> familiar with the Phoenix CMOS (most of the machines I work on have
Award), but
>> in the Award bios you can activate assignment of PCI irq's based on the bus
>> slot of the card, and deny certain irq's to PCI by mapping them to the isa
>> subsystem- playing with these settings on the trouble-making irq/device
slot
>> ususally resolves my problems.  Might be worth a look/try.
>>
>>   BTW, didn't the net card come with a flash bios disk which lets you
configure
>> such things as the card's irq and address to ROM (like, say, the 3com
series
>> does)???
>>
>>     -stnikk
>
>
>
>> Per Kristiansen wrote:
>
>> well.. HP in it's infinit wisdom have left out this possibility(to assign
>>
>> IRQ's), and it sucks :(((
>>
>> I'm still not sure about this, but I have never seen any PCI NIC's that
>> allows you to set the IRQ
>>
>> Anyone that have seen this?
>>
>
>
>I could swear the 3com 9xx's come with such a utility, but my memmory may be
>faulty.


hmm...think I'll check again..thnx..


>On the same principle as editing the CMOS irq assignments to slots (which, it
>seems, cannot be done on your motheboard) have you tried re-arranging the
pci cards
>in your system to different slots and in different orders?  This has
worked for me
>too.
>
>     -stnick

nope that didn't do the trick-- I'm tempted to try solaris 5.6 , just to
see if the problem is all unix dialects or just linux...


Per Kristiansen
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