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Why would a NIC card NOT be recognized?



First, what are the NICs?
Second, are all these systems similarly hardware configured? 
Could very well be that you have an IRQ conflict.
Third, are all these systems running the same kernel and modules. 

When they boot up, do they not recognize the NIC?
On 20 Mar 2001, at 8:26, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> I'm currently running a linux network at school on 15 Compaq 100 mhz
> machines and about 5 won't recognize the NIC card (and therefore won't
> recognize the network). I've tried swapping the NICs with other peer
> machines and they work flawlesslessly, I've tried swapping cables and
> again, no problem. I've run out of possible problems....
> 
> 
>           anyone have a thought I can research?
> 
> Kevin
> 
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