[ale] IRQ 255 and IRQ 0 (was: RH 8.0 won't recognize my NIC)

Mon Feb 3 09:34:44 EST 2003

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 07:38, Cameron Childress wrote:

> So here's my question...  Where in the system are IRQ addresses assigned in
> plug in play hardware?  Is the motherboard expected to decide?  The OS?  The
> device driver?  There are no dip switches on the card itself...  I'm
> thinking that Packard Bell had some weird proprietary setup that's causing a
> problem here, but I don't know enough to say for sure...

Your bios should do this- if you've remembered to set the "plug-n-play
OS" option to "no".  That said, the newer linux kernels all support
plug-n-play, if you've compiled it with that option selected...

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