[ale] riddle me this batman... network problems continued...

[Keith Hopkins]

Geoffrey wrote:
> This is so wierd.  So I pull out the noname nic with the realtek 
> chipset, stick the 3com card in by itself.  It works.  So, the box is 
> finicky???
> 
> Still don't know why the integrated nic doesn't work, but at least I'll 
> be hanging on to the box for some purpose.
> 

Check the specs.  Since the NIC isn't showing up in `lspci`, I'd bet the non-working NIC is PCI 2.0 (and lacks any backward compatability) and the motherboard only supports PCI 1.2.

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Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith