On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 10:14 +0000, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Ric, > > > He might want to disable the onboard ethernet in the bios, just to see > > what happens. It's an easy enough check to do. Ric > > Disabling the on-board ethernet and at the same time moving the card to > the second free PCI slot did nothing (except lose all ethernet). Re-enabling > the on-board ethernet and restoring the FA311 to its original slot brought > both into action, so I now have two correctly functioning ethernet ports. Great! Once in a blue moon, I had to remove my old soundblaster card, boot up, boot down again, replace the card, then re-boot. For whatever reason, it worked just peachy. IRQ issue or me fudging something up, doing that procedure put things to rights. I'll take dumb-luck anyday!! Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
