[lug] Network card errors due to Windoze

[D. Stimits]

Glenn Murray wrote:
> 
> Not in this one.  I checked an older Dell and you are correct in that
> case: on that box I can turn off the OS plug and play options in the
> Advanced section of the BIOS settings.  I went to Dell and updated the
> BIOS to the latest version for this box (Dimension 8200), but nowhere
> in the settings is there mention of plug and play.

It sounds like the bios is broken, via the vendor saving money. You
probably should ask the vendor specifically about where in the bios, or
how, to set it so the bios will do the pci initialization, i.e., how to
make it know the o/s will not be responsible for pci setup. There may be
some way around this with the setpci command, but I don't know for
certain, you can view settings with "lspci -vvv | less" (very verbose),
and explore your system to see what it *thinks* the card is at, and
perhaps combine this with known working values from windows, and
eventually get it to work right. Setting it to not pnp aware is the
easiest way (but then again, it isn't know that even this will fix it,
but I suspect it will, the power off requirement tends to make me feel
it is a hardware initialization, which pnp aware skips).

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> Thanks,
> Glenn Murray
> http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray
> 
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, D. Stimits wrote:
> 
> > Glenn Murray wrote:
> > >
> > > When I run setup at boot time and go through all the BIOS options I
> > > can find nothing about plug-n-play to set or unset.
> >
> > It is there in all PCI type motherboards. But it is not in the section
> > on boot order, it will be in some other area, like advanced setup or
> > some other feature area.
> >
> > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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