On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Victor Richardson wrote: Sounds very much like a plug and pray problem, where the system gets confused as the bios keeps shuffling irq's or so... Did you disable p&p in the bios already to try? Paul >I shutdown the sysytem and removed the pci nic, then rebooted. Bootup >ran kudzu(?) which asked if I wanted to remove, save, or do nothing >about eth1. I chose to delete it, then restart just to see if I added it >back in, the system would recognize it. Anyway, after I added the card >again, boot still had errors for both. So I don't think that it's a >hardware problem. -- Economist: someone who wonders if it works in theory when he sees it works in real life. )0( [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] )0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-