Mark Hahn wrote:
> 
> > But as soon as I try to assign an IP-adress the whole system halts
> > rock-solid, the magic sysrq combinations don't even work anymore.
> 
> I notice that the driver detects irq11, but it doesn't show in
> /proc/interrupts.  are there no other kernel messages?
> 
> someone else reported a similar problem with a 3c9xx, btw.
> I suspect some late pci/irq changes cause the problem.

I attached the dmesg just after boot.
When I disable the BIOS setting 'PnP OS', the network-card is assigned
to IRQ 10. But this doesn't solve the problem.

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