[Sheflug] My network hassles - ISA bus dead?

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

 This is about the only reason I can come up with.

I have taken one of my machines, ion, offline and used the harddrive (with OpenBSD 2.7) and the NIC (another ISA 3Com 509) and stuck them into photon, and used the lead that ion uses to connect to the
hub.

 No joy. Pinging flux from the ion/photon machine reports that the other machines on the network are down.
 
 The motherboard in the machine that is photon is of unknown heritage - a friend sent it to me, he was given it - but as far as he knows it works.
 I can't believe with a flakey mobo would boot and run happily. I also can't believe that if there were hassles with the ISA bus that the NIC would even be recognised.

 I've got a PCI NE2000 in flux I can swap out.

 I'm not convinced tho. What could possibly be causing this? If both an OpenBSD and Linux setup complain - it can't be software?

 *Rips out hair in frustration*

Baz.
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