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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:46:55 PDT
From: Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: D-Link PnP Challenges Tekram SCSI To Steel Cage DSL Match

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Well, my little Duck pal has been doubled over with laughter for most of
the morning while every attempt I made at removing my old UMC Network
Interface non-PCI Card and installing a new D-Link PCI card failed.

It seems that the D-Link network card (a DFE-530TX+) is PnP and grabs
the IRQ (12) that my Tekram SCSI card uses. The old UMC card was
manually configurable. The D-Link card doesn't have any jumpers and its
configuration program ("DIAG.EXE") doesn't have a method for setting the
IRQ.

I thought it was rather weird that my SCSI tape drive would start
winding every time I tried to set up the NIC. Bootup was a little slow,
too -- about 15 minutes. (This was _before_ installing the D-Link
driver.)

RMVIEW says IRQ 12 belongs to the Tekram card. Is the proper procedure
at this point to move the Tekram IRQ to some other number so the PnP
BIOS can give IRQ 12 to the NIC? This particular motherboard's BIOS
doesn't have much control over the PnP setup.

By the way: If the NIC IRQ is assigned through PnP, how does
PROTOCOL.INI know when it changes?

- Peter

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