Re: Does a Trident 4DWave DX works with 2.3.38

[Jim Nance]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:49:45AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > A friend gave me a Trident 4DWave DX card and i saw that this card is
> > supported by the kernel but all i got is:
> > 13:12:21 ~> modprobe trident
> > trident: unable to allocate irq 0
> 
> Your BIOS forgot to allocate it an IRQ. I have similar problems on a board
> here.  Try putting it in a different slot or BIOS upgrades.

I ran into something like this last night with an ethernet card while helping
a person install RH 6.1.  I learned a lot :-)  In particular go into your
BIOS an tell it that you do NOT have a plug-n-play aware BIOS and see if that
fixes your problem.

On our system, when the BIOS thought the OS was plug-n-play aware, it did
not assign IRQs.  Our 3c905 ethernet card got an IRQ of 0 and promptly hung
the machine when it tried to talk to the DHCP server.  Of course hanging the
machine keeps the irq 0 message from being logged to syslog, so it took us
a few hours to figure out what was going on.  Hopefully this will save you
those few hours.

Hope this helps,

Jim