I suspect this has something to do with your mainboard. There are IRQ
issues with the FIC 503 series. I have had problems with NICs in the past
using a 503+ in Windows 98 and Linux. What happens is that the computer
BIOS assigns one IRQ but the OS assigns a different one...this results in
it being installed but it doesn't work. First make sure you are using the
latest BIOS for your FIC. If that doesn't help try manually setting your
IRQs in your BIOS.

Mark Rode
The NOSPIN Group


>I  have been having difficulties trying to install a network card under Red
>Hat 7.0.
>   I have been able to install
>other PCI devices successfully on this machine/build.  If anyone has any
>suggestions, or can point me to some useful sources of information, I would
>be greatly appreciative.
>
>Hardware details:
>FIC VA-503a mainboard
>Pentium 200 MMX processor
>128 MB RAM
>Western Digital 4 GB HDD, with only Red Hat 7.0 installed
>Thanks in advance,
>George

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