I am having problems istaling a network adapter on my Debian box.

I have tried two difrent cards one Asus and one RealTek, boath times the lspci -v output looked the same, here is the intresting part:

<snip>
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32 ( )
I/O ports at b000
<snip>

The fact there is no IRQ setting is obviusly the problem, right? Especialy since I have tested the cards on seperate macihes (boath Debian and W2k).
I realy can't make heads or tails out of this

Any ideas anyone?

There is probably no driver installed for them. Is the Realtek a 8139? Two ways to do this. Debian use a modules tool called modconf. Do modconf from a console as root. If it says unknown then apt-get install modconf. It will give a menu, go down the list to network card drivers and install the relevant driver. If you know exactly which driver you need like realtek 8139too then do insmod 8139too. You would then need to configure the network address etc.

Thanks for the advice, it was helpfull since I didnt have the drivers instaled.
But lspci still gives me no IRQ and when I checked dmesg I saw my nic had an IRQ0, did some googleing and that can't be right, so its probably something hardware related, or maybe my bios settings??
Does anyone know any good sources I could try to get some idea whats what in the "PCI settings" section of the bios??

How many pci slots do you have? In some instances the manufacturers share slot3 with the agp and it can cause problems with a NIC.

Again thx for the replay
I have 6 pci slots, 1 agp for the vide card, and one for the sound card (I'm guesing ISA ?? it is a pretty old 6+years soundblaster 32); slot 3 is empty (going on what it says on the motherboard)

I have tried playing with irq assignment in the bios, every time I ended up with bootup halting at plug'n'play init, ofcourse this was plain trial end eror without any actual knowledge of waht I was doing so...

I would disable plug 'n play in the bios and leave it to assign IRQ's. Try moving the card to different pci slots.

You should see the BIOS PnP assignments coming out of the POST screen, if you can it will show what/if IRQ assignments are made to PCI and AGP. I found that inserting an unbootable floppy usually gets it to stop where I can see this info, your BIOS may also accept the Scroll Lock or Pause/Break key to stop and leave this info up as well.

The motherboard docs may give a clue as to which slots share IRQs with what onboard devices or other slots.

Aside from the IRQ not reading in lspci, can you get the card to work? ie load driver, assign IP with ifconfig w.x.y.z netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast w.x.y.255 or dhclient eth0

No I can't, when I try it I get
SCIOSCIFFLAGS: Device or Recourse busy!

I did try moving the card around and making my BIOS do the irg assignment atomaticly with no improvments.
I have, through trial-and-error, figured out that PCI 1 is acteuly the AGP slot. As for the motherboard docs they are MIA in one of the moves, do you know where i might find them on-line?

Google for your mobo manufacturer or model number and the word home or downloads, such as:

http://www.google.com/search?q=asus+home
or
EDIT: best to search the model number with the word downloads
http://www.google.com/search?q=P5GD2+downloads

For BIOS settings, a good start is to set 'PNP OS off', 'reset config data' and all PCI/IRQ assignemts to 'auto' or 'PnP'

Thank you all turning PnP OS to off did it, I now have a working network adapter. Soon I'll be posting from my Debian box bugging you all with something else

Again thank you for the help