Do you know what IRQ and Memory addresses are being used by each component? ** What Mother board do you have and is it at the latest bios? I've found that an updated bios can fix a lot of problems like this. However be very careful doing this as it does carry some danger. Check the mother board manufacturer to see if they have any bios updates. ** I'm personally a big fan of Tyan mother boards. Tyan builds a solid mother board. They are not super fast like some but they are very stable. Sam. Yaron wrote: >Hey, > >I don't know any config utilities for this guy, it's all PNP I think. > >Here's the thing... the BIOS has an option for assigning interrupts - you >have four you can play with. ONE of them is "Network Controller, Display >and UCHI". > >Which means they're bound, by the BIOS, to use the same IRQ. Now, if I go >APIC Ethernet wins, if I go no APIC USB wins. If I disable the IRQ for the >video card, it doesn't help! > > >On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, M. Jentges wrote: > > > >>Hi Yaron... >> >>Have you tried (or does it even exist?) the cfg utility for the NIC? >>Perhaps it really IS just as simple as an interrupt conflict. Not sure >>about the 905's but the 509's had a nifty util called '3c5x9cfg.exe' You >>put it on a DOS floppy, boot the box, run the exe and enable/disable >>PnP, set io, interrupts, etc... >> >>Just a thought... >> >>-Michael Henry Jentges >> >>Yaron wrote: >> >> >>>Hey guys, >>> >>>Here's a fun one. >>> >>>I've got this machine I've never been able to get USB to work on. Lately >>>I've moved it to the 2.6 kernels, and also got some devices that make USB >>>somewhat important. >>> >>>After fiddling around with the kernel for a while I discovered that if I >>>disable "Local APIC", USB works just perfectly. >>> >>>However, the ethernet card doesn't work (3com 3c905). Enable APIC, >>>ethernet works again, USB is dead. >>> >>>I went back to 2.4.21 to test, and it happens there, too. Tried moving the >>>ethernet card to different slots, didn't help. BIOS doesn't seem to have >>>any special options for this stuff. >>> >>>Anyone have any idea how to fix this? >>> >>> >>>-Yaron >>> >>>-- >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > > >-Yaron > >-- > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list