Hello there!

I'm frustrated.
I'm running a 2.4.20 kernel on a Gentoo Linux box.
On this kernel, APM and ACPI is build in.
When I pass pci=noacpi to the kernel at boot-time,
everything works fine.
When I don't pass it, my network card will not work.
When I exclude ACPI from the kernel, my HDs will
loose the interrupt at boot time.

So far so good. I used pci=noacpi in the past and
used to be satisfied with that.

Now I wanted to upgrade to kernel 2.4.23.
Different story.
When I exclude ACPI from the kernel, my HDs will
loose the interrupt -> no booting possible.
When I include it and pass pci=noacpi to it at boot-time,
the HDs will loose the interrupt -> no booting possible.
When I just simply boot, with acpi built into the
kernel, the HDs work fine - but my network card gets
assigned to interrupt 19 and does not work.

I don't have any ideas left.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

regards,
Oli

Oli Scheit <oli@scheit.de> writes:

> Hello there!
>
> I'm frustrated.

Playing with computers is perfect for you, then.

> When I just simply boot, with acpi built into the
> kernel, the HDs work fine - but my network card gets
> assigned to interrupt 19 and does not work.

I don't know what is wrong either, but I would try
changing some settings in the BIOS setup, like
Plug-n-play-aware-OS or ACPI-aware-OS. If you
don't have such settings in your BIOS config then
perhaps your motherboard is too old for such things?

Is there a BIOS upgrade available for your motherboard?

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:24:55 -0800, walt wrote:

>> I'm frustrated.
>
> Playing with computers is perfect for you, then.

Uhm. Yeah. Guess so. :-))

> I don't know what is wrong either, but I would try
> changing some settings in the BIOS setup, like
> Plug-n-play-aware-OS or ACPI-aware-OS. If you
> don't have such settings in your BIOS config then
> perhaps your motherboard is too old for such things?

Not to old, but simply to cheap. It's a ASRock K7S8X.
I believe when I entered the BIOS for the very first time,
there _was_ an option to enable/disable PnP-OS. But
now no more. Seems to be a one-time-choice...

> Is there a BIOS upgrade available for your motherboard?

I guess there is a newer one. They don't sayanything about
acpi or such things in the changelog but I might as well
give it a try.

Thanks,
Oli

Do your hardware support sharing irq?

Did you enabled this in your kernel?
(CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ)

--
Gruß Stefan
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Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. Dijkstra

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:37:10 +0100, Oli Scheit wrote:

For the record:
it was my own fault. I forgot to rebuild and install
the appropriate wlan-ng driver to the new
/lib/modules/NEW_KERNEL_VERSION/net directory.
I misinterpreted the error messages from dmesg.
It said it couldn't load the driver.
I thought the error came up because the hardware
didn't work.
But it came up because the driver wasn't there.
DOH!
Next time I'll belive.

BTW: I'm writing this under kernel 2.4.23 :-)

Thanks for the help.

regards,
Oli