[ale] weird bios problem

[Geoffrey]

I've got an older ibm box that I'm trying to resurrect (p200).  It has a 
nic on the mb which is recognized and properly configured, but never 
works.  I just figured it was bad.  Anyway, I've tried dropping in both 
a wireless pci card as well as a pci nic, no go.

I was digging through the bios and found a setting under 'PCI control' 
that is grayed out but says 'Network adapters   [Disabled]'.  Now my 
assumption is that would apply to the nic on the mb, but I can not get 
this thing to toggle on.  There is a dip switch on the mb that disables 
ethernet, but I've toggled it both ways, no difference.

So, I'm now wondering if this is why the on board nic is not 
functioning?  I figured if the bios says it's disabled, then the OS 
would never see it.

Anyone had similar experiences?  The box probably isn't worth $25 but 
I'd just like to get past this.  (anal kind a thing isn't it???)

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