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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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Plug and Pray Problems
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<p><strong>From Tony Grant on Mon, 14 Dec 1998  
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Hi,
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Problem: USR Sportster ISDN TA will not work on AMD K-6/II machine.
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Solution: Force D-Link Ethernet card to use IRQ 5 and ioports in the
0300 - 031f range so as not to interfere with the ioports needed by the
Sportster.
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Question: How do I force the Ethernet card to behave? On bootup my
kernel (2.0.36) tells me that IRQ <TT>/</TT> io etc are being set by 
BIOS. I want to set them myself.
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TIA for pointers to the correct doc.
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Cheers
<br>Tony Grant
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My first guess would be that you're encountering a problem
with some "ISA Plug and Play" adapters.  The first
option would be to see if there's a setting to disable
"plug and pray" on one or both of these boards, and manually
set them (possibly using an MS-DOS or Windows) utility).
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Failing that you can look for a Linux package called
'<tt>isapnptools</tt>' --- I've never used it --- but it seems to
have helped a few people out there.
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I've read many messages from people who've resorted to
booting DOS, running the configuration utilities from
there and then loading their Linux kernel via <tt>LOADLIN.EXE</tt>.
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This is more of a workaround than a real solution --- but
it seems to be effective for most and I don't know of
any downside for normal operation (just that mild distaste
that running MS-DOS to configure you hardware every time
you boot might leave in your mouth).  Console yourself
with the fact that you rarely have to reboot Linux.
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Plug and Pray Problems
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<p><strong>From Tony Grant  on Mon, 14 Dec 1998  
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Jim Dennis wrote:
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This is more of a workaround than a real solution --- but
it seems to be effective for most and I don't know of
any downside for normal operation (just that mild distaste
that running MS-DOS to configure you hardware every time
you boot might leave in your mouth).  Console yourself
with the fact that you rarely have to reboot Linux.
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Jim,
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Thanks for your prompt reply if only M$ offered such aftersales support 
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<tt>Loadlin</tt> looks like a last resort solution that I will have to 
turn to. I really didn't want to install W$ or DOS on this machine (it 
is a headless server) so booting is no problem, the machine is up all 
of the time, only SW upgrades will imply rebooting.
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Cheers and thanks again
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Tony Grant
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