@titan,

Hi, there's a CLI guide for the 546 here:

http://www.thomsontelecompartner.com/en/products/viewanaccessproduct.php?id=108

There appears to be a few commands for upgrades on P605 (software - bit sparse!) and P627- (upgrade).

Hope you can make sense of all that! You Linux guys are used to all that CLI stuff though no doubt. HTH anyway.

Having suffered major problems with Pipex CS and the BT line itself (yet again) the 510 router just wasn't capable of dealing with all the ATM CRC errors. Also, with only a 30 day warranty on second hand v5s I relented to keep the kids happy and re-bought another v6 router! LOL

Still the same bugs as initially reported of course, but performance is fantastic though.

As for the IRQ problem, yes it's nothing to do with the 546 as the 510 also caused similar problems.

Just lately, the PC has literally been resetting itself for no apparent reason. When booting Windows it seems to 'hang' whilst enabling the networking then bang, it resets the PC! Weird.

I set the PNP aware=YES again in the BIOS and checked whether Windows now allowed you to untick the 'Use Automatic settings' checkbox and it still doesn't!

Also, in the BIOS you can manually asign IRQs for the PCI slots but the range on offer is something like 5-15 IIRC. Whatever setting I use for the PNP OS aware setting, the IRQ assigned for the onboard Broadcom ethernet NIC is always 20, and for the other 2 PCI NICS they always get assigned 20 and 21!

So, I wonder if anyone has any suggestions how to proceed?

BTW, The NICS are in more or less the ONLY places they can be on the motherboard due to the physical construction of the motherboard, so that isn't really an option for changing IRQs unfortunately.

Edit:

Well, with a bit of careful manoeuvring, managed to get the conflicting NIC into another slot.

According to the BIOS manual, it turns out that the slot that that NIC was in shares its IRQ with the onboard LAN, so that explains that problem!

Also the AGP slot shares its IRQ with an onboard USB controller, so that can't be helped either.

Now, every NIC has an individual IRQ and 2 of them don't share with anything else. Also, I reset the BIOS to default values and disabled the PNP OS aware option. Hopefully that'll do it.

Edited by BlobbyBlobby (Sat 04-Nov-06 18:09:06)

Thanks Blobbyx2, I had found the the telnet and fumbled my way around it, well sort of. and downloaded the cli guide from www.speedtouch.com/support.htm. Glad you sorted your problems out, there is no way I would go back to windows now and it is bound to get worse with Vista. probably be posting again soon for help with telnet, I am not too proud. :<)

You're welcome titan.

I think the CLI guide on the Speedtouch.co.uk/support site is for the 5.3.1 firmware, whereas the link above is for the v6 models. Maybe there's not too much difference though.

Tried Linux once (FC3). Liked the security. Hated all the CLI stuff. Gave that up in the 80's! LOL

Also, it screwed up my booting using Partition Magic (a known bug with FC3) which I wasn't too pleased about. It was nice to have triple-boot 98SE/XP Pro/Linux.

Good luck with the Telnetting. Sure somebody'll help you out if you get stuck.

Edited by BlobbyBlobby (Sat 04-Nov-06 18:52:36)

I got the 546v6 last week to replace an old Origo router and have been impressed with it so far. The only problem I do have is sometimes when I click on a link when browsing a "page cannot be displayed" link comes up inmmediately and I have to refresh a couple of times to get the oage to load in firefox.

That was my first router, an Origo from eBuyer!

There's some debate on the Firefox support forums about that problem as to whether it's a bug in the browser or not, but I've been getting that using the 510 too.

Anyway, one thing you can try is:

Speedtouch->Configuration->Configure then under 'System Configuration' set 'Web Browsing Interception' to 'Disabled'.

See if it makes any difference?

Have you tried FF2.0 yet btw?

Yep the Origo Ebuyer here too. I'll try that Web browsing interception. Not tried version 2.0 yet either so thats my next step.