I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX
and everything was working except the NIC. I emailed the newbie mailing list to have some help (which was greatly appreciate by the way) and after trying different setting it still doesn't work. I am fairly sure that it's a motherboard problem because I tried different NICs without any success and my 3com works on another PC running mandrake 9.0. I tried to install with USB,serial and parallel ports, soundcard disable to free a maximum of IRQ, tried different PC slots and none of that has worked. When I look in KDE>control centre information>irq my nic is not listed but if I look in KDE>control centre information> PCI the NIC is listed in the correct IRQ. Another thing, I don't know if it's normal but no matter what I do the NIC IRQ is always the same as another device. I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another one? What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that this is no the problem? I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 is not working properly with my board? JP
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