I recently purchased a Pavilion 6630 to serve as a dual-boot Linux RH6.0/Windows 98 box.
I have been unable to get my ethernet card (NetGear FA310TX) to function under Linux, though it does work under Windows. I had this card working in another Linux box that recently bit the dust. In that box, I had to turn off Plug-and-Play in the BIOS to get things working, and I would like to do the same on the 6630. However, it does not appear that the BIOS has the option of turning off PnP. Is this true, or is the setting just obscure?
I noticed an earlier thread "Linux Bad IRQ setting..." in this forum that started with a message by Joaquin Negron (linked to below) about a getting a network card to work in a Pavilion 8560. That discussion petered out at the point where Joaquin had received the suggestion to turn off PnP in the BIOS and he replied that he could not find that option in the BIOS settings. Is that where the issue stands with some or all of the Pavilion BIOSes?
I would suspect that the option is selectable via the "Installed O/S" under the Advanced menu settings, although I don't have a 6630 here to verify. I have included a link to a Pavillion support web page with Bios information for the 6630. Please note that PCI device slots are configurable on this model.
Can sombody please tell me how to change vga memory my bios doesnt have that line and i dont know how. I have 6630, and when i go to bios to change the memory on my intel 810 chipset video card it doesnt say anywhere how to change it.
I learned today via comp.os.linux.setup that I'll likely need to disable PnP in my Pavilion 6635 to make it work. I, too, am unable to find an option in the BIOS to disable PnP.
I've tried an HP network card, a LINKSYS card (which worked out of the box on my IBM box), and now the netgear all unsuccessfully.
If anyone has found a method to get LINUX networking to work on a 6535, I would appreciate the input!
For future reference to others who may run into the same problem I had:
I wanted to confirm the accuracy of Patrick Watts' suggestion to change the "Installed OS" setting in the BIOS to turn off Plug-and-Play on a Pavilion 6630.
Changing the value of this setting from Windows98 to Other made it possible for me to get my ethernet cards running on linux.
