networking curiosity

[Chris Bartram]

2 possibilities spring to mind:

1) Plug and play settings in the BIOS. Check the non-worker against 
another, working machine.

2) Mandrake is RedHat based, I believe, and I once had a problem with a 
3c905 and kuzdu (the hardware detection program) that stopped the card 
coming up. This was on Fedora Core, and I think it was in the bugzilla 
references. If you disabled kuzdu it worked fine. IIRC the interface 
looked like it was up, but worked very badly or not at all.