Voted!

So yesterday I voted due to the upcoming trip.

In my electorate of Makin there were 7 candidates wanting my vote, but only the 2 major parties were handing out How to vote cards. Interestingly enough they both asked for them back, "you know, recycling and all that."

I'll be only just over jet lag by the time I get to see who won.

tech/misc | 21 Sep 2004 | #

Hardware wrangling

Had fun trying to get a DLink DFE-528TX+ PCI Ethernet Card working with a motherboard with an AMD 1Ghz processor. The PCI card and motherboard refused to negotiate an IRQ no matter which PCI slot was used, even though there were no other PCI cards on board. The 8139too driver didn't give me much I could fiddle with after Linux booted.

This is very strange since I've used these cards before with absolutely no problems. To get it working I needed to disable PnP on the motherboard and allocate an IRQ via the BIOS. In the good ole days when ISA was king I could play with driver settings in software rather than needing to deal with this at the BIOS level. So much for PnP. Why is PC hardware so bothersome?

tech/linux | 21 Sep 2004 | #