FC8 and Netgear FA311

[Ric Moore]

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

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