On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 23:51, 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.

Have you googled around for information on the motherboard chipset? 
Maybe there's some workaround that you need to enable.

In the end, you might just have to try disabling the onboard USB and
putting a PCI card in there for that...

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