On further investigation, I was able to make the NIC work by moving it to a different PCI slot. However, the Creative sound card then stopped working with the same error (-16). If three PCI cards were installed, two of them would work. Therefore the solution was to install an old network card and leave it completely disconnected - just to "absorb" the error. I had to find the right places for the cards by trial and error. A hardware solution to a software problem!
I assume that this is a problem with the 2.6.15 Kernel - perhaps not assigning IRQs correctly for this motherboard. Earlier Kernels worked perfectly. -- Fails to detect ethernet card (VT6105 via-rhine) https://launchpad.net/bugs/48184 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
