Leonid Grinberg wrote:
if you believe in voodoo, move the nic to a different pci slot.Oh, right, that's the other thing I forgot to mention. I do not think that this is a PCI card. I remember someone telling me on a Debian IRC channel that it is AT, and, also, lspci is not reporting it.
That brings back memories. It's an ISA card. It's a long time since I used one, but it may be necessary to pass parameters at boot time. Have a look in the BIOS for an interrupt number and memory location. If you can't find the location, there is a 3Com utility that runs from DOS which can set and read the card parameters. If you own one of those cards you should probably get hold of it anyway. It's the only way I knew then to configure that card, though there may be a Linux utility arrived since then. If you didn't come from Windows, you'll need a 95 or 98 boot floppy, which I think are available on the Net.