Re: good choice of network card?
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 16:51, Scott Henson wrote:
> My friend was having a problem with a 3com 3c905C-TXM which is the same
> card I have and mine was working just fine. I came to the conclusion
> that the interrupt handler on the card was fried. Basically it was
> sharing an interrupt with the sound card and when ever the sound card
> was used, the network card would die and he would have to restart to get
> it back. I moved the sound card to a different interrupt and the
> network card has worked fine ever since. Now my card is also on a
> shared interrupt, so Im just assuming the card was defective(he got it
> used). Maybe you are having a similar problem with a defective card.
Just out of curiosity: are you using a SB Live! card (emu10k1 chip)? If so,
it's probably the soundcard. Creative doesn't seem to have heard of IRQ
sharing yet and their cards cause instability when other devices on the same
interrupt aren't _very_ cooperative.
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