Re: dead network eth0 / ppp0 / hd recommendations?

[Ian Timshel <itschaotic yahoo ca>]

On December 15, 2003 11:54 am, you wrote:
> Ian Timshel wrote:
> [major snippage]
> 
> > =================
> > Bob, Rick et all.
> > 
> > Well.. the network connection is back up.. took that good card out 
and 
> > put in a flakey one in it's place and bingo bango.. it's all ok.  
> > 
> > I pounded away at the irq troubles but got distracted with a couple 
of 
> > dying hard drives... and never did get the usb irq conflicts 
solved.  
> 
> I wouldn't worry too much about the USB IRQ conflicts.  They're minor
> issues.  So, you don't use the internal NIC, just the external?
 
Yes Rick that's right I use the external NIC as eth0.  I had seen the 
internal one show up as eth2 with the external card in place but 
couldn't make it work for eth0 without the external card in place.    
However none of those configurations allowed me to ping between 
machines on the internal network regardless of my efforts.

I tried to use the internal audio too but it was not happening easily 
so I put the sound card back in.  

Basically I removed everything and shuffled all things including cables 
to try and make things work with as few pci slots used as possible.  
Like I said before.. distractions with failing drives was taking the 
fore.  

Any suggestions on drive types and manufacture?

Cheers!  Ian.