[realtek] HP PnP NIC Works

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 JTBldrCO@aol.com wrote:

> I have the HP Pavilion 8580c with an HP EN1207DTX 10/100 PCI ethernet 
...
> your support pages suggest.  However, there is no setting in the BIOS that 
> appears to address this item on the HP Pavilion.  Here is the way to do it on 
> HP Pavilions ....

I've updated the IRQ problem page
   http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html
with new text, including an edited version of these instructions.

Thanks for the report.

> Reboot and F1 into PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility at startup.
> 
> Right-Arrow to the "Advanced" page.  Below the CPU Type/Speed/Cache entries 
> is a line: "Installed O/S:"  Three alternatives are offered: Win95, 
> Win98/WinNT5.0, and Other.  Choosing "Other" makes all the difference.  Just 
> make that change to 'Other;' and exit, saving changes.  Continue booting into 
> Linux.  Now Linux networking appears to work fine.  At least the tests I've 
> run so far - pingiing to and from another host on the LAN - running Windows 
> ME; ftp-ing from WinME to Linux.

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
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