BillyWissman on Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:18:18 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] eth0


Actually my plain text message compositions are being wrapped at 72 characters.

My last resort will be an ISA card, if I know for certain it's a compatibility issue.


John Lavin <jlavin@ccil.org> wrote:

>BillyWissman@netscape.net said:
>> The system sees the NIC and driver, but when I run /sbin/dhclient to
>> configure dhcp I get "eth0: PCI error 0x800000". The error message
>> keeps repeating itself line after line and won't stop until I
>> physically pull the ether cable from the NIC.
>
>Please wrap your lines at 72-80 characters for those of us on text mail
>clients.
>
>I've not seen your specific error, but I have had all kinds of trouble
>using that NIC in a Pentium 166 of mine.  My net card would work fine in
>an Athlon, but not in the older Pentium.  I was able to get the module
>inserted, and it would appear, but all transmit packets were errors.  I
>had to replace with older net cards to make use of the box.  Perhaps you
>can scrounge up an ISA card or two no one else wants.  They work just
>fine for those pentiums...
>
>Good Luck,
>-john
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