>> 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
Personally i will not buy ESC b/c they have jumpers to screw with. I have not built a computer myself unless it is jumperless b/c of these types of issues, plus there is more control of certain devices. >> 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. First off, what is the NIC sharing an IRQ with? That makes a huge difference. Even though NIC's can NOT share IRQ's period. I have seen this and be the cause of so many things when i worked at Dell Server Support, Linux and Windows. You can also tell the kernel to give the NIC a certain IRQ if needed....in /etc/modules.conf on the ethx line just put "irq=X"...X being the IRQ you want it to have. >> 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. Did you atleast disable serial and parrallel ports and all things NOT needed first? >> Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another >> one? Personally i would buy an A-Bit or Asus, they are the best that i have worked with. Then again they are the only boards i have bought to build my systems with. >> What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that >> this is no the problem? Disable everything on the MB that you dont need, then go from there. >> 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? I doubt 9.0 is the issue, then again i have heard of other issues not working due to some differences... Rob
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