Hi Yaron... Have you tried (or does it even exist?) the cfg utility for the NIC? Perhaps it really IS just as simple as an interrupt conflict. Not sure about the 905's but the 509's had a nifty util called '3c5x9cfg.exe' You put it on a DOS floppy, boot the box, run the exe and enable/disable PnP, set io, interrupts, etc... Just a thought... -Michael Henry Jentges Yaron wrote: > Hey guys, > > Here's a fun one. > > I've got this machine I've never been able to get USB to work on. Lately > I've moved it to the 2.6 kernels, and also got some devices that make USB > somewhat important. > > After fiddling around with the kernel for a while I discovered that if I > disable "Local APIC", USB works just perfectly. > > However, the ethernet card doesn't work (3com 3c905). Enable APIC, > ethernet works again, USB is dead. > > I went back to 2.4.21 to test, and it happens there, too. Tried moving the > ethernet card to different slots, didn't help. BIOS doesn't seem to have > any special options for this stuff. > > Anyone have any idea how to fix this? > > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list