[lug] Network card errors due to Windoze

[j davis]

Save yourself any further headaches and go spend $20-30 and get a new nic..
try a linksys , most now use the tulip chipset and work well.

jd

>From: "D. Stimits" <stimits at idcomm.com>
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>Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:02:12 -0600
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>Glenn Murray wrote:
> >
> > When I run setup at boot time and go through all the BIOS options I
> > can find nothing about plug-n-play to set or unset.
>
>It is there in all PCI type motherboards. But it is not in the section
>on boot order, it will be in some other area, like advanced setup or
>some other feature area.
>
>D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Glenn Murray
> > http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray
> >
> > On Thu, 30 May 2002, D. Stimits wrote:
> >
> > > Glenn Murray wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to those who responded to my "ifconfig errors" post.  My card
> > > > is now working in the following circumstance.  It will not work 
>unless
> > > > I power off the computer after booting Windoze, and I mean unplug 
>the
> > > > computer so the card LEDs go off, not just use the power button on 
>the
> > > > front.  I'm suspecting this is some sort of IRQ problem, but don't
> > > > know enough to be sure.
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Is the bios set to "o/s is NOT plug-n-play aware"? If not, make that 
>the
> > > setting, and try again.
> > >
> > > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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