Thanks for your replies... I set "PNP OS" back to "No" in the BIOS (setting it to Yes was what seemed to fix the problem last time, weird...), then I reserved IRQ's 3 and 4 for serial, 5 for my NE2K, 12 for PS/2 mouse (when I get round to fixing that one again), and booted GNU/Linux again. The RTL shifted from IRQ 12 to 11, and the NE appears to work fine on IRQ 5.
I guess the BIOS just configured the network card better than it was configured when it left it for GNU/Linux. Makes sense. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698
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