> Not too sure, but it might indicate an issue with the driver. I do know
> that the first PCI slot is usually treated slightly differently; it's meant
> for low-latency interrupts, and designed to be used by high-speed (1GB+)
> network cards and firewire controllers. If I'm not mistaken, it gets a
> higher interrupt priority than the other ones. So, your card might be
> upset about not getting its interrupt served on time, when it's not in
> slot #1.
>
in my motherboard instruction designed for windoze-washed freaks (no real 
clear information..) it's said that:

"The orange PCI slot (PCI5) also works as a communication slot, which 
allows you to insert the communication card, such as wireless LAN card."

can anyone translate such a nonsense into english.

for those who like to buy amd64 system - my motherboard is Microstar 
MSI K8N Neo Platinum with NForce3 250Gb chipset. just think twice before 
buying ;)

anyway - performance is excellent if everything works.


>> HOW to allocate ANOTHER irq/pin for fxp or usb?!
>>
>> BIOS doesn't offer any option for this
>
> Look further; most of them do have an option to specify PCI interrupts[1].
> In any rate, your BIOS isn't going to know anything about your specific

my BIOS only allow to disable/enable use of interrupts for PCI slots. 
nothing else.

> network card, and it probably won't allow you to change the IRQ number
> of the USB interface.
> [1]  Then again, that's judging from x86, not x86-64..

unfortunately x86-64 is still x86/windoze compatible and that's source of 
all problems.



it seems that FreeBSD works around this shit by just looking what devices 
are where and then allocating everything itself.

i'm just downloading FreeBSD-current to check too, they claim
even better support for this crappy BIOS in current.



my invisible builtin Nvidia network controller is still invisible 
including windows. this motherboard MAY be broken.