> I'm sorry, maybe me words weren't precise enough. If every vendor would do > its work then I would agree. But in fact there are still some buggy bios on > the market which don't implement APIC correctly. So, to give a better hint: > Choose a mainboard without APIC or if you need APIC, choose a vendor with a > non-buggy bios! > IMO it's the best to keep it as simple as possible, which means if you only > need functionality provided by old XT PIC try to stick to such a board > because this way you don't have to care about buggy bios.
How about this? If I use a USB/LAN adaptor (+/-$10) then I can select the USB which does not have an IRQ which interfers with my rt NIC. Have not tried it yet but does anyone forsee a problem? Roland > > Karl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users