Hello Sluggers! I think this is an accurate summation of my problems.....
�Linux Ethernet-Howto by Paul Gortmaker v2.9, Aug 25, 2003 This is the Ethernet-Howto, which is a compilation of information about which ethernet devices can be used for Linux, and how to set them up. Note that this Howto is focused on the hardware and low level driver aspect of the ethernet cards, and does not cover the software end of things like ifconfig and route. That information is found in various other Linux documentation. ....snip... 1.1. New Versions of this Document New versions of this document can be retrieved from: Ethernet-HOWTO <http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html> or for those wishing to use FTP and/or get non-HTML formats: Sunsite HOWTO Archive <ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/> ,.....snip..... 2.9.3. All cards detected but two fail to work in PCI machine Version 1 of the PCI spec allowed for some slots to be bus master and some slots to be slave (non-bus master) slots. To avoid the problems associated with people putting BM cards into slave slots, the v2 of the PCI spec said that all slots should be BM capable. Hovever most PCI chipsets only have four BM pins, and so if you have a five slot board, chances are that two slots share one of the BM pins! This allows the board to meet the requirements of the v2 spec (but not the intent). So if you have a bunch of cards, and two of them fail to work, they may be in slots that share a BM pin.� Now to test it... Regards, Nicholas Tomlin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
