Thanks to all who helped with my questions on this. I looked for an
updated Kingston driver, and there were none. I ended up upgrading to
Windows 98, and the network card works fine now. It could be that Windows 98
handles PCI steering better than Windows 95, or perhaps it is the new driver
(Win98 detects the Kingston 30bt cards as Realtek RTL8029's, and installs
the driver accordingly), or maybe a combination of the two.

 In any case, my two computers are now happily talking to each other, as we
are happily multiplaying Unreal:). Thanks again!!

Michelle Thuma


>  What about a different PCI network card? (ie is it only Kingston
> cards that seem to have this trouble?)
>
>  IF PCI steering is the problem -- as seems likely... -- then I think
>(and this is consistent with your experience that it works fine in DOS)
>that it is the Kingston *driver* that is finding PCI steering and
>misdiagnosing it as an IRQ conflict.
 > This could be a 95/98 difference.  There might be another/newer
>driver available.  Or, yes, another brand's driver is unlikely to
>reproduce this particular bug (if that's what it is, of course).

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