FYI:

With a clean install of MDK 7.2 on the Iwill KK266 motherboard, with 1GHz 
Athlon, PC133 DRAM, there may be problems with with the Netgear FA311 and 
Linksys LNE100TX ethernet cards.  The network cards seem to send ARP 
packets (as step on of sending a ping) which are ACKed, but the cards in 
the Iwill based system don't seem to receive anything.  Thus the ping fails.

http://www.iwillusa.com/products/spec.asp?ModelName=KK266

With the Iwill and MDK7.2 - the network is fully operational when I insert 
an old ISA base card and install the correct modules.

I've since update to the MDK 8.0 beta 2 distro and the PCI network cards 
work fine.

I've also experimented with keeping all hardware the same - and swapping 
the MB to an old socket7 mother board - and the PCI network cards are fully 
operational.

So it *appears* there is some negative interaction between the IWILL KK266, 
PCI network cards, and the MDK 7.2 distro. Updating the kernel to 2.2.18xx 
did not help.

Best,
Chris Barnhart



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