[ale] Disable PnP BIOS for Linux?

[Mike Nolan]

It's PCI and I've changed every option I can think of.  I bet I re-booted
at least 100 times yesterday (I am not kidding!)  This is driving me crazy.

Thanks.


Frank Zamenski wrote:
>Hi Mike,
>
>Yes, you are close. But is it a PCI or ISA NIC card? I was also working
>within about the same limitations you describe on this mobo I bought
>recently, and was able to set an older ISA jumpered Soundblaster card to a
>diff IRQ and DMAs in BIOS with no difficulty. But that was ISA, it may be a
>bit more complicated with PCI but only in that you might have to force all
>the IRQs for all of your PCI stuff if you change one. (I may be wrong here
>tho'.) Just jot down your BIOS defaults, particularly those that let your
>cards work under Linux, and try changing a few parameters for the
>non-working NIC, it shouldn't hurt anything, really. (I think... :-)
>
>Frank
>