But is this a NIC issue or a Motherboard/BIOS issue? The NIC should be in
a bus-master slot, but some (mostly older) M/B's had some non-busmaster
slots. Also, it could be a BIOS issue leading to an IRQ conflict. I run
a *LOT* (hundreds) of the Netgear cards, all under very high load
conditions (firewalls, mail servers, web servers, DNS servers, machines in
a network software testing and performance lab, etc.). I have never had a
slot issue, or a failed card. We have had some failed NIC's of other
sorts (3COM, Intel, HP, SMC ...), and we had some issues with some older
versions of the tulip driver (pre May-99 versions of the driver). But the
Netgear cards have been rock solid - and very inexpensive.
- rick warner -
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Vidiot wrote:
>
> > Of all things, a network card should not have to be in a particular slot.
>
> No, it shouldn't. The Netgear is, however, the second NIC that I have
> seen behave in this way. Some old Kingston PCI adapters did the same
> thing. If I installed it in the first slot, it would work. If I shut the
> machine down, put the card in the second slot, there was no way I could
> get it to work. Put it back in the first and everything was OK.
>
> I almost forgotten about that entirely, and had a lot of trouble getting
> the Netgear cards to work until my coworker, Charlie, remembered the old
> Kingston adapters. Damnedest thing...
>
> MSG
>
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