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

["Kevin D. Colby" <kevin marcal com>]

Sorry, but I've been away for Thansgiving...

>>>>What do you have on IRQ 15?  Can you move the second SCSI there?
>>>Nope, both SCSI "cards" (they are onboard) automatically assigns IRQ's
>>HP says there is _no_way_ to change the IRQs of the SCSI controllers?!?!?
>>You have _got_ to be joking...
>nope

My opinion of HP just dropped to a new record low.

>>I can tell you what the problem is...
>>You can't have two controllers on the same IRQ, that's what.
>>Right now you have the second SCSI controller and the Net card both
>>on IRQ 11.  Won't fly.  Not now, not ever.  Someone's got to move.
>>
>>This would be a problem even under NT.  What does HP say again?
>>Tell them you have a network card on IRQ 11 and the secondary SCSI
>>controller is conflicting with it.  Ask them how you can change the SCSI
>>controller's IRQ.  I'm sure it can be done.  No system designer would
>>be _that_ stupid as to not let you change it at all.
>
>well..this is the crux of the problem.. in windows 95 & NT it works Okay..
>It's ONLY under Linux that I have this problem..arrrrgh!

Yes, that is understandable.  I presume HP provided drivers for NT
and 95.  These drivers could sense that there is a conflict and change
the IRQ on the fly to resolve it.  Under Linux (or any *nix that HP
doesn't specifically provide a driver for) what they are set to is
what you get.

If you really can't move the SCSI controllers' IRQs, then you
_must_ change the network card's IRQ.  I'm 99% sure that
this can be done, since any company making cards that wouldn't
would go out of business FAST.

Have you contacted the network card's manufacturer?
The card is likely PnP and this needs to be disabled.
You want to set the IRQ manually from any OS you
can using some utility provided by the card's manufacturer,
or _maybe_ by setting jumpers on the card, though few
cards are made this way anymore.

Pay no attention to what Windows thinks the IRQ is,
and do not attempt to change the cards IRQ through
Windows utilities.  These would only affect Windows,
and wouldn't do squat for Linux.

The manufacturer's utility should let you "flash"
the card's BIOS with new information on it's IRQ.
Ask around there for something like this.  It probably
shipped on a floppy with the card.

        - Kevin Colby
          kevin marcal com