Re: Installation Problems..please help..it's URGENT!

["Kevin D. Colby" <kevin marcal com>]

>Problem:
>No matter what kind of PCI netcard I try , the same allways happens:
>one or both the SCSI cards conflicts with the NIC.
>Causing the NIC to go bananas! You can see it but you can't DO anything
>with it. Kinda sad really :)
>
>If I put in a old'n trusty NE2000 card, and rip out the PCI NIC, everything
>works, but I MUST get it to work with a 100Mb card, and the last time I
>checked , there were mighty few ISA 100Mb cards ;)

Ouch.  Can you change the IRQ that the PCI net cards want by default
using a DOS or Windows program from the manufacturer?  Can you
set the card to _not_ be Plug-'n-Play (if it is)?  How about the second SCSI?
What do you have on IRQ 15?  Can you move the second SCSI there?
(This would likely be done using HP software.)  Did HP give you any
setup/boot CD for this system?  I'm not familiar with this line, but the
NetServer line came with a "Navigator" CD that lets you boot it and
fiddle with IRQs and such.  Have you called HP?  The HP support
people were far more helpful than I thought they would be--even
after they learned I was trying to run Linux.  Maybe I got lucky...
Keep us appraised of the situation.

        - Kevin Colby
          kevin marcal com