Suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.4 Sorry about the large amount of info below. When my Soundcard is in place, my ethernet card plays up. Sep 9 07:48:45 gringo kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Sep 9 07:48:45 gringo kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 265 dirty entry The Sound Card is ISA PnP, and works well for recording etc. I would like to keep it if possible. Isapnp.conf does not offer any choices of interrupt and it promptly takes over interrupt 5 when inserted (see below). This kicks the Network card off 5 to 9. Both of the Network cards that I have tried do not like sharing interrupt 9 with other hardware. Can anyone give me a few pointers on how I might get the Network card to share something else ? What would be a good location for it ? Soundcard Crystal Audio -Turtle Beach Network cars - D-Link (via-rhine) and Realtek (8139) Brian Marr No Sound Card =========================================================== gringo:/home/gringo # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 7099246 7105653 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 17566 17701 IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 1 1 IO-APIC-edge serial 4: 130 119 IO-APIC-edge serial 5: 144256 143821 IO-APIC-level eth0 6: 6 3 IO-APIC-edge floppy 8: 10327506 10308865 IO-APIC-edge rtc 10: 12 4 IO-APIC-edge sym53c416 11: 39816740 39818075 IO-APIC-level HiSax 12: 876314 871261 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3, usb-uhci 14: 3000 3048 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 3 3 IO-APIC-edge ide1 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 14203306 14203304 ERR: 0 gringo:/home/gringo # ==========================================================\ With Sound Card gringo@gringo:~ $cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 8187 8520 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 103 115 IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 34 49 IO-APIC-edge serial 5: 47 45 IO-APIC-edge Crystal audio controller 8: 0 2 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 21257 21178 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3, eth0, usb-uhci 10: 7 9 IO-APIC-edge sym53c416 14: 3 9 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 3 3 IO-APIC-edge ide1 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 16612 16612 ERR: 0 gringo@gringo:~ $