>>> On 13 January 2006 at 15:20:46, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [big snip] >> Should I look to dump my mobos with Realtek NICs and switch to other >> NICs (would Intel NICs be OK ?) > > I think your problem has nothing to do with the brand of the NIC. > Sounds like some other problem... File a proper problem report.
Full dmesg, you mean ? > A lot of other things change when you turn off a NIC, for example, the > PCI configuration changes. Might want to try feeding PCIBIOS some > different values through ukc>... I tried flags settings of 0x10, and the output appeared (to me) to be OK. Lots of OKs, and no obvious error messages. I also tried 0x34, but nothing obvious appeared. If feel I should, I can post the full output from these boots.
