NIC Problems

[Eric]

this is an interesting one and i'm sure there is some sort of BIOS setting
that is involved...

-basically i have been unable to get any NIC to work on box#2... its a dual
w2k / linux 2.2.14-50

-NIC i've tried
(2) dlink de220pct isa
linksys lne100tx
netgear fa311
intel inbusiness
smc 1211
realtek 8019

-i'm sure i'm not so unlucky that i've stumbled upon 7 bad NICs
-i've removed all firewall/anitvirii stuff just in case
-now box#2 is hooked directly to hub with one other box (#1 - working)

-the motherboard is a Soyo 5emapro MB with via chipset
-PnP in BIOS is off
-ESCD is auto
-the cards all install fine in 2k yet they can only ping themselves
-in linux the dlink isa card is the only card for which i can get the eth0
interface up
--when it is up the card can like in 2k ping itself but nothing else
-if i take the cable modem out of the equation and setup the other computers
in the same subnet

-netstat -i reveals that the card has transmitted as many packets as i try
to send and received as many packets as normal on this broadcast connection
-if for instance i give 2 boxes the same IP and just hook those boxes up
box#1 gets a IP conflict in w2k as box#2 has been assigned its IP
-hmmm...

-my conclusions:
--all the cards are fine
--there is prob some irq routing problem (???)
--i would really really like some help with this

-i know this post is a bit disorganized, forgive me i've been awake for a
long time, but one more interesting note is that in one of my other
computers i have experienced similar problems... the ISA functions fully but
PCI NICs will not work at all

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need any more info?
please email me ekep...@utdallas.edu or reply to group
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Regards,
Eric

[Honey LAN >_^]

i hope this could help a little bit
try to figure out if u r using cross cable OR plain cable
try to use only one nic per test
irq: 10
i/o: no need to set
pnp os: yes
try this in win2k first
if it works, that's fine
if not, try to find out if ur motherboard has sth called "master pci bus"
becoz some of the nic ONLY works with the master pci slot.....
last but not least, search in ur nic doc if they only works for master pci
slot........>_^
good luck

[Eric]

-right i use a straight utp cat-5 cable to a hub...
-only one nic in each box upon test
-with PnP enabled in the BIOS NICs still do the same thing

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