gdh@acentral.co.uk said: > The killer is..... the card worked fine in another PC :( I have tried to > change the PCI latency, upgrade the BIOS, twiddle with settings in the BIOS > to do with PCI timing, etc. but none of it has made the slightest bit of > difference. > > Since it's a 1U machine with a small PSU, I've even tried a (brand new) 300W > PSU but again, nothing changed. > > Does anyone have any ideas? :) The thing with 4-port nics is that they use all four hardware interrupt lines on the motherboard. Since the vast majority of pci cards only use one, using the other three tends to expose problems in marginal motherboards. (That's how I understand it, anyway. I'm no PCI expert, but I've seen similar problems with 4-port tulip, sundance, and e1000 cards). Are you using ACPI? I happen to have an older Via Epia board, and I've noticed that it disables one of the 4 interrupt lines completely in the bootup messages. I don't claim to understand what that means, but it sounds like bad news if you're trying to use all four. Jason - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
