RE: Bizarre NIC problems (resolution)

["Lawrence W. Smith" <lws@juiceco.com>]

> > disabling pnp and setting to "server" mode may help too...
> 
> That's true with the 3c509s, but the PCI models don't have 
> PNP options; PCI
> has to be PNP.
you're absolutely right on that my error, been getting 
too used to totally trouble free Intel's I guess.

> What difference did the "server" option make for you?
We are swerving OT but again with 3c509's the server option resulted
in more reliability: less dropped packets etc. as well as tolerance 
of a wider variety of driver versions (for MS OSes)

With 3c905's issues were more related to the numerous revisions
marked A B and C even though there were at least 3 C's to my knowledge
probably more... HP certainly documented much of the problems 
with certain revisions clashing with the bios in _some_ PII and PIII models.

L