said:
>So far, so good. I found the proper driver for the VIA chipset,
>FETND.OS2 and the associated .NIF file.
Unless I'm confused, this driver has a less than wonderful reputation.
VIA chipsets are not all that well regarded in general.
>During boot up, the data shown at the loading of the
>driver says IRQ=0xB, which implies to me that it is using IRQ11.
Agreed.
>I go to
>the device manager and it shows the Ethernet hardware device in the
>equipment list as using IRQ10.
That sounds like a defect to me.
>They both for UHCI Compatible USB Host Controllers. LANTRAN.LOG seems to
>show an IRQ conflict as well. It reports an LT00042 error that FETND_nif
>was not able to bind because multiple adapters are trying to use the same
>IRQ level.
Any reasonably well implemented PCI driver can share IRQs.
>Fine, I say. So, I go to SPCIIRQ to try and get a change in the IRQ ...
>but which? Report in SPCIIRQ says for the Ethernet device as Bus=0,
>Device=18, Function=0 Ethernet(11) despite what the device manager says.
Which report? Do you mean the pci.exe output?
>So, the device line in CONFIG.SYS reads either BASEDEV=SPCIIRQ.SYS 0 18 0
>1 10 or BASEDEV=SPCIIRQ.SYS 0 18 0 1 11 but both report an SPCIIRQ
>parameter error when trying to load.
I probably need to see the output of:
pci -s
pci -bdp
show_pir
show_lnk
rmview /irq
and your current
config.sys
before I can make any reasonable guesses on what to do next.
>Could it be that SPCIIRQ is not able to change the IRQ for what is not an
>PCI board (but mainboard) device?
This can happen for any device for a number of reasons.
>Why is it that even the OS can't get
>its IRQ straight?
It's not really the OS, it's the driver. The driver is responsible for
supplying correct data to the device manager. The device manager is more
of a reporter than a manager. It just displays what the drivers tell it.
>Is there some way to tell the FETND device driver to
>change which IRQ to trigger on?
Check the NIF for an IRQ setting.
Regards,
Steven
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