Alan Cox wrote: > > IRQ 5 may well have gone to an onboard device. > > There are two things to note here: > > 1. By default if you boot with non PnP OS the BIOS will assign IRQ's > to PnP devices and we would be best to try and keep the existing value when > possible (so the PCI/ISA routing is correct) Yes, when I tell the BIOS that the OS is not PnP aware it assigns IRQ 9 to NIC, yet Linux tries to assign it to IRQ 5. Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/