to me this almost smells like an interrupt or base mem conflict. does the
486 have a sound card sitting on the same interrupt? intel's etherexpress
series cards are typically rock solid, i'd need to know more about what
other hardware is in that 486 before hazarding any other guesses.
> Running an 1.2.13 kernel on my 486 does not solve the problem.
as much as it pains me to say, fire up dos (*shudder*) and make sure the card
checks out with softset. if it seems to pass all the tests, set up the 386
as a responder and blast packets at each other for a while, that may shed some
light on things...
> Bas Mevissen
>
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--jm bassett