Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

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To get into your BIOS, try pressing F10 a TON at boot time. If that won't 
work, try other key combinations. If that doesn't work, unplug the power 
cable from one of your hard disks and boot up. The BIOS should complain about 
it, and, hopefully ask you if you want to F1-Continue or F2-Setup (go to the 
BIOS setup program.)

If you can get into the BIOS, make sure an IRQ is supposed to be assigned to 
the card. Check PnP options, etc.

Hope this helps,
Deven G.



In a message dated 8/29/01 11:31:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bedlam@alumni.rice.edu writes:

<< 
 Ok, a few things I'm having trouble with.
 1) I can't get into my BIOS.  I've tried, but I think I killed the access 
prcedure.  I have put a new hard drive in this machine so it doesn't behave 
like the Compaq website tells me to.  It says to hit F10, but that doesn't do 
anything.  If anyone knows about Compaqs, I have a Presario CDS 982 (about 5 
years old)
 2) I have a USB card plugged into another PCI slot, and it is getting an IRQ 
assigned.  I don't know why this card is not.  The output looks similar for 
the two cards:
 
 ~# cat /proc/pci
 
 ...
 Bus  0, device  19, function  0:
   USB Controller: VIQ Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 4).
     IRQ 11.
     Master Capable.  Latency=66.
     I/O at 0x1880 [0x181f].
 Bus  0, device  20, function  0:
   Ethernet controller: PCI device 1317:0984 (Bridgecom, Inc) (rev 17).
     Master Capable.  Latency=66.  Min Gnt=254.Max Lat=255.
     I/O at 0x1000 [0x10ff].
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10000000 [0x100003ff].
 
 Like I said, I don't kno why there is no IRQ for the NIC.  I've tried 
compiling the code you sent me, I'm attaching the output I got back.  I used 
the command I found in the readme file on the disk.  I used the code you sent 
me though...
  >>