>I have a RH5 machine which contains a brand-new Mylex Flashpoint
>PCI-SCSI card. It works just fine using the BusLogic drivers.
>But my boss is being a scrooge about ordering cables for it, so
>sometimes I have to switch in a different BusLogic card, also a PCI, >and
>this one also works, but when it's in the machine the network card
>disappears. (the net card is a 3com 590.)
>I tried putting the BusLogic card in my workstation, and it made my
>DigiBoard multiport card disappear.
>I suspect that this has something to do with the PCI subsystem, but I
>don't know much about PCI. Can anybody give me a hint about what >might
>be going on? I suspect that I'm being vague about all of this but I'm
>not sure which details to include.
>Thanks for any kind of input.
To be very short: This is an IRQ conflict. IRQ's for PCI are assigned before
ISA, so if your PCI card gets lets say IRQ 10 and your NIC is setup to use
10, your NIC doesn't show...
Tell your BIOS that it shouldn't assign a specific IRQ to PCI.
Igmar
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