networking curiosity

[david]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 20:09 +0000, Chris Bartram wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hmmmm
BIOS settings. Now there's a thought. Still doesn't explain the Ubuntu
success vs the Mandrake failure. But worth a look in the morning!
Thanks.

David