Newbie - Won't Detect PCI Ethernet Card

[rickenbacherus]

I try booting and one of the first lines says "PCI: cannot allocate resource region 4 of 00:07.1".

So why can't it allocate that memory? I smell IRQ conflict. Do this in a term:

procinfo -f

That will tell you what is using what IRQ. As will

lspci -v

And let's not forget

dmesg

In your BIOS did you disable IRQ sharing? PCI BUS mastering? Automatic assignment of IRQ's?

Of course I don't know what options your BIOS has so I can't say for sure but you should hopefully see some options as I have posted above.

You could always try removing the card and booting to see if you still get the same error. Also moving the card to another slot might help.