Re: Partial success (Re: on-board rtl8139 fails.)

i had almost the same problem with a realtek cardbus nic and the
interrupt routing. after installing the acpi patch from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi stuff is working fine.

matze

El Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:13:41PM +0100 Jarl Friis ha dit:

> Donald Becker <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On 7 Dec 2002, Jarl Friis wrote:
> > 
> > > I installed windows on another partition, realised that it used IRQ
> > > 10, actually it have not assigned IRQ to *anything* at all, I shut the
> > > machine down.
> 
> Sorry a typo gave screwed up the message, I meant "actually [Windows XP] have
> not assigned IRQ 9 to *anything* at all"
> 
> Which seems like it is aware of error-prone IRQ 9
> 
> > > 
> > > changed some settings in BIOS
> > > changed "Installed OS" from "Windows XP" to "DOS" whatever that means.
> > 
> > It likely changes the format of the IRQ mapping table.
> > 
> I may try upgrading the BIOS...
> 
> Do you have any URLs explaining issues like "format of the IRQ
> mapping table"?
> 
> > > Now it uses IRQ 10 as Windows XP, and it works...
> > > even with the default prebuilt binary kernel and modules...
> > > 
> > > So Now I am curious:
> > > Is it possible that "IRQ 9" is broken somehow???
> > 
> > Yes, or the table format from the BIOS isn't correct.
> 
> Do you have any URLs describing this problem/issue and what to do
> about it?
> 
> I really appreciate your help. Thanks
> 
> Jarl
> 
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