[ale] Lost nic with new system

[Jim]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 08:38 -0500, Jim wrote:
>   
>> No, I didn't.  In fact the enable/disable lan option is still not in the 
>> bios but it came up enabled after the power cycle.  There are no LAN 
>> settings of any kind.  There is a pci plug and play option, but most of 
>> the settings there deal with the graphic card except the PCI IDE 
>> BusMaster, which is enabled and they recommend not changing it.
>>     
>
> I strongly recommend running that board combo back to Fry's and getting
> another combo from another board maker. Onboard devices that have no
> control functions in bios sound like a long-term problem to me.
>   
Is that possible?  I figured they wouldn't take a system back if it's 
been used. 

Since it works, albeit with only one lan, I'll live with it.  Other than 
that problem it's a honking machine.  I'm impressed with the speed and 
the ability to run a bunch of servers on one system.  Well, bunch is 
only 3 at this time, but with 2 Gb I can get more running.  I've got to 
get my disks reorganized first.

Thanks,
Jim.