Hey,

I don't know any config utilities for this guy, it's all PNP I think.

Here's the thing... the BIOS has an option for assigning interrupts - you
have four you can play with. ONE of them is "Network Controller, Display
and UCHI".

Which means they're bound, by the BIOS, to use the same IRQ. Now, if I go
APIC Ethernet wins, if I go no APIC USB wins. If I disable the IRQ for the
video card, it doesn't help!


On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, M. Jentges wrote:

> Hi Yaron...
>
> Have you tried (or does it even exist?) the cfg utility for the NIC?
> Perhaps it really IS just as simple as an interrupt conflict. Not sure
> about the 905's but the 509's had a nifty util called '3c5x9cfg.exe' You
> put it on a DOS floppy, boot the box, run the exe and enable/disable
> PnP, set io, interrupts, etc...
>
> Just a thought...
>
> -Michael Henry Jentges
>
> Yaron wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Here's a fun one.
> >
> > I've got this machine I've never been able to get USB to work on. Lately
> > I've moved it to the 2.6 kernels, and also got some devices that make USB
> > somewhat important.
> >
> > After fiddling around with the kernel for a while I discovered that if I
> > disable "Local APIC", USB works just perfectly.
> >
> > However, the ethernet card doesn't work (3com 3c905). Enable APIC,
> > ethernet works again, USB is dead.
> >
> > I went back to 2.4.21 to test, and it happens there, too. Tried moving the
> > ethernet card to different slots, didn't help. BIOS doesn't seem to have
> > any special options for this stuff.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
> >
> >
> > -Yaron
> >
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