On Tuesday 15 July 2003 03:14 pm, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: > Hello, > > A friend of mine had lot of problems to have well recognized a ethernet > card conected to a cable modem under Mandrake 9.1. In fact it had not > network runing :-). We thought that the problem was related with the > ethernet card, and then we tried with others, but that didn't solve it. > > Recently he has changed the mother board and, suddently, the Mandrake 9.1 > installation is runing like a charm :-) using the same ethernet card. > > So, we think the problem could be related with the mother board; the first > one was: > > Gigabyte 8ST800 with a P4 2.53Ghz 533. >
Sounds like the apic bug might have bit. Did you try starting the kernel with the noapic boot parameter. It is a magic fix for newer motherboards and nic/usb problems. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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