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The Motherboard Bios usually allows users to change the assignment of IRQs to
devices.  You either get a list of IRQs and set them to be either assign able
to ISA, PCI or both.  Or you get a list of slots and can choose to assign an
IRQ to a particular slot.  You may need to disable IRQ assignment to the
graphics card, disable IRQ assignment to the USB (if there is one) these will
free up IRQs for use by the PCI and ISA slot devices.  You may need to set an
update option once this is done, Abits call this force ESCD i think, this just
means, re-run the Plug-n-play and assign resources to all devices found on/in
the mother board.   Then be careful if you other NIC moves, Linux may not
follow it, it should though, also watch to see that the new card is getting an
IRQ.  hope this helps.

My problems are worse, my onboard SIS900 ether net no longer works with
linux.  that is, the old motherboard (an alton) fried on a hot day we had (i
was over clocking the bus and the on board video card buggered up).  So I got
a new cheepy mobo, it has on board ISA modem, and ether net.  When I installed
it and turned the system on the computer removed the old Netgear and added the
new on board ether net.  Now I wanted to install/add Samba, which is an option
in Red Hat 6.2 install.  So I reformatted and reinstalled.  Big mistake now I
have to use my good Netgear again in that machine!  I tried compiling the
module code (the sis900 comes with the linux driver) no good some module
dependencies are missing.  The other option is to use the .c file from the
same source i got the module file, compile it directly into the kernel.  Every
time I have done anything with the kernel it has buggered the system beyond my
powers.  Re-format, reinstall always follows.
I did notice that the Netgear was getting the same IRQ, maybe this is the
problem so I moved it to a new slot, if i remove it maybe linux will, reprove
and get the new device.  the Netgear is PCI and so is the 'on-board.'  They
don't have listed base addresses so I am screwed with using boot:linux
ether-5,0 (the card is on IRQ 5 and the man pages say 0 means autoprode for
the base address).  This thing worked before!!!  oh well

Mark Ramsey wrote:

> Ok quick and easy one here (I hope so anyway).
> I installed another nic in my Linux box, now I get the following error and
> I'm not sure how to correct it.
>
> WARNING: The PCI BIOS assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is
> unlikely to work!
>
> You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line.
>
> Ok now what is the PCI BOIS setup?
>
> Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Mark Ramsey
>
> ramseym@woody.ods.org
>
> Linux...the OS that is Making a Difference