[vortex] Re: [3c509] IRQ 0 on PCI card

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Paul Wilson wrote:

> > eth1: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x5800,  00:10:5a:6d:31:a3, IRQ 0
> >  *** Warning: IRQ 0 is unlikely to work! ***
...
> Thanks I have reposted to vortex and I will try get BIOS make and version PC
> is at a mates place
> Do you know of other BIOS settings that influence this behaviour.
> eg Do I switch all IRQ to PCI some are reserved for ISA!

You must have at least one free IRQ for the PCI bus.  You can't assign all
to the ISA bus.

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