In article <1706.138.26.156.71.1048262279.squirrel@mail.vsrc.uab.edu>,
 <emre@asper.org> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to turn this somewhat old computer (PII 350Mhz) into a
>firewall.  I've tried about a dozen network cards, and each of them report
>"can't map i/o space" or "can't map device registers" or "can't map
>registers" during boot up.  They don't show up on ifconfig -a either.  I'm
>sure all of the NICs I tried aren't defective, so I'm wondering what the
>problem could be.  I'm using 1.6 with the GENERIC kernel.  I've tried
>mostly ex, sip, tlp, rltk and epic cards.  Is there a way I can fix this? 
>I know most (if not all) of these other cards work fine on a 1.6G system I
>have.

dmesg of the system?

christos