Subject: Re: ne1: device timeout
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: Jeff Northon <jeffo@sasq.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/20/1999 14:51:54
> There is no perfect way to detect every type of hardwired card. Finding
> the card at all means it is on IO 280, or 300 - Device timeout almost
> always means the IRQ is wrong. (Or, in the BIOS, that IRQ has not been
> reserved for ISA devices.)

Or there is a USB  using the IRQ (that isn't sorted out by the BIOS). We
were just bit with that last week.

Jeff Northon
www.sasquatch.com