Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-20 Thread Stefan Esser
On 2000-06-20 10:41 +0200, Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also the PCI latency is IMHO too high. > > Try setting it at around 40. > > That will affect the throughput of the NIC, or its reliability? Or both? It won't do anything, in your particular case. The latency timer is the m

Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-20 Thread Graham Wheeler
Olaf Hoyer wrote: > Hi! > > The card normally should act and behave at least as a normal NE2000 clone (ed0) > But as stated before, you might have to jumper it into the mobo. Yes, that was the problem. I managed to find the manual and discovered it had been jumpered as non-PnP (not by me; I in

Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > > Perhaps all I need to do is toggle the PnP BIOS setting, but before I > > > pull out the screwdrivers and tear the two machines apart again, I'm > > > hoping to draw on someone else's experience here. > > BTW will setting the PnP BIOS to `enabled' have any effect? It shouldn't in your case

Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-19 Thread Olaf Hoyer
At 11:05 19.06.00 +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: >Hi all > >I have a Genius Hub Card (basically an Ethernet NIC that also acts as a >four port hub). I would ideally like to use this card in an old 486DX4 >machine which acts as a ppp router. The card is detected (under both >Windoze and FreeBSD) as a

Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-19 Thread Stefan Esser
On 2000-06-19 15:32 +0200, Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Esser wrote: > > Is the PS/2 mouse interface enabled ? It will try to grab IRQ 12, > > and may do so in a way that the IRQ can't be delivered from ISA > > or PCI slots ... > > The may be a psm driver in the kernel, but

Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-19 Thread Graham Wheeler
Stefan Esser wrote: > > On 2000-06-19 11:05 +0200, Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I was under time pressure, I pulled the card out and put it in a > > different machine, this one a P166 which works fine (with the same IRQ). > > These are the settings: > > > > Slot n IRQ Line (th

Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-19 Thread Stefan Esser
On 2000-06-19 11:05 +0200, Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I was under time pressure, I pulled the card out and put it in a > different machine, this one a P166 which works fine (with the same IRQ). > > Anyway, when I get a chance I would like to try it again in the 486. The > 486

PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes

2000-06-19 Thread Graham Wheeler
Hi all I have a Genius Hub Card (basically an Ethernet NIC that also acts as a four port hub). I would ideally like to use this card in an old 486DX4 machine which acts as a ppp router. The card is detected (under both Windoze and FreeBSD) as a RealTek card (the model number escapes me right now)