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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:40:27 PDT
From: Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: DSL Duck Does DHCP (was: D-Link Challenges ...)

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: DSL Duck

"If Mark's fiddling with his Tekram card finally got Hardware Manager to
see his printer, I'll bet your problems are because of your sound card"
quacks The Duck, looking through my email.

"You nitwit," says I, "the sound card has nothing to do with my network
card! And get out of my email!"

So Mr. Quackers hops off the chair, stroddles over to the tall tower
wherein grinds the hardware, grabs the TidalWave 128 sound card with his
beak and gives it a yank. Out it slides, and El Ducko drops it on the
floor.

"The power's still on!" I shriek.

A quick peck on the Reset button and the machine reboots. We watch the
screen. No error messages. No shared IRQs. And DHCPMON reports a
valid IP address lease.

"See?" quacks The Quacker, who heads out the back door for the pool.

A quick review of the IRQ table shows why the machine now works. The
TidalWave 128 is an ISA PnP card and was always given two IRQs, 7 and 9
(probably one for sound and one for MIDI, though I'm not sure). For
some reason, this particular Award BIOS won't use all the other
available IRQs for the PCI PnP cards, and puts all of the PCI PnP's on
one single shared IRQ. But with the TidalWave gone, the IRQs are now
assigned as 9, 10, 11 and 12 (for the scsi, video, usb port and nic,
respectively).

Stupid Duck.
_____

Technical Note 1: Steven: RMVIEW is now reporting my Tekram card's
IRQ. I haven't tested, but it seems that RMVIEW only reports _some_ of
the PCI and/or PnP cards (for example, my Elsa video and D-Link NIC
aren't currently reported). Try pulling out the PCI PnP card that
RMVIEW _does_ report and see if RMVIEW then reports something else (it
does here).

Technical Note 2: I wanted to test my original UMC NIC again (it's a
non-PnP ISA card) but the only available IRQ is 7. The UMC NIC doesn't
allow you to set up the card for IRQ 7.

Technical Note 3: A week ago I "scrambled" my production partition's
MPTS files. I reinstalled the MPTS Fixpaks (WR08423, UN0980, WR08425)
and the boot errors I was getting have stopped.

Technical Note 4: With "BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS /IRQ" in my CONFIG.SYS
file, IRQ 7 is assigned to PRINT01.SYS. However, RMVIEW /IRQ doesn't
report this. You have to run RMVIEW /D and wade through the output to
find it. OS2SNIFF doesn't report it either, and SCANPCI and PCI040VK
only report on PCI hardware.

Technical Note 5: When DHCP starts it disables all existing interfaces,
_including_ the local loopback which Junk Spy relies on. If you use
Junk Spy and your email stops working when you switch to DHCP, you have
to modify the \MPTN\BIN\SETUP.CMD file so the "IFCONFIG LO ..." line is
_after_ the "DHCPSTRT ..." line. This is from Mr. Junk Spy himself, the
man who puts up with more Duck quacking than anyone, Mr. Rollin White.

- Peter
Sent via DSL :)

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