Re: PlugNPlay Bios expert wanted ;-)

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:48:18 -0800

> On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 05:32:31PM +0100, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
>
> Basically, the Realtek people are right. The W9x simply removes the value
> for the interrupt number of the ethernet card from the PCI config space
> register of that card.

Actually, some BIOSes will do this if PnP is enabled, expecting that W9x
will fill the values in. Disable PnP at the BIOS and the IRQ will be assigned
for all the PCI devices.

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