On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: > I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm > at the point of giving up. > First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: > ECS K7S6A > Athlon xp 1800 > 256 MB ram > NIC 3com 905 TX > > and everything was working except the NIC. I emailed the newbie mailing > list to have some help (which was greatly appreciate by the way) and > after trying different setting it still doesn't work. I am fairly sure > that it's a motherboard problem because I tried different NICs without > any success and my 3com works on another PC running mandrake 9.0. > > I tried to install with USB,serial and parallel ports, soundcard disable > to free a maximum of IRQ, tried different PC slots and none of that has > worked. > > When I look in KDE>control centre information>irq my nic is not listed > but if I look in KDE>control centre information> PCI the NIC is listed > in the correct IRQ. Another thing, I don't know if it's normal but no > matter what I do the NIC IRQ is always the same as another device. > > I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble > and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. > > Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another > one? > What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that > this is no the problem?
put the nic in a different pci slot > > I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A > under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 > is not working properly with my board? > > JP if it works w/ 9.0 prosuite, it works with 9.0. by what standard are you using to say "the nic does not work"? no ping? no lights? what does (as root, without the quotes, in a text console) "ifconfig" say? what does "cat /proc/pci" and "cat /proc/interrupts" say?
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