From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pc-24-151-10-129.newt1.ct.charter.com ([24.151.10.129] helo=h14me.homelinux.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANvm0-0002b3-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:03:40 -0500 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hANF3cZc004132 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:03:38 -0500 Received: (from alex_snow@localhost) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hANF3cNC004131 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:03:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:03:38 -0500 From: Alex Snow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20031123150338.GC4108@gmx.net> References: <20031123033011.GA3318@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: ethernet cards X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:03:41 -0000 and what really sucks is I cant even get into the bios setup proggie since that requires an os supporting realmode dos and I currently have linux installed on this machine. stupid compaq. I'l;l look at their site maybe I can find some kind of bootdisk or maybe (I doubt it though) a bios setup for *nix. well it does say '...if you are using unix, please insert your compaq diag disk..." when I try to enter setup... On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:22:32AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > Alex Snow wrote: > > > this is weird bc I thought pci was supposed to assign ircs to the > > hardware in order to prevent conflicts such as those present in > > non-pnp isa... > > It is. Which is why I think it's a little strange. Of course, if you have > an ISA device, it's not very clear to me how to tell the PCI IRQ allocation > process not to use that particular IRQ. > > The weird thing in this case of yours is that IDE controllers are on pretty > standard IRQs and I find it odd that those were allocated to a PCI device. > Perhaps show us the output of "lspci -v"? > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.