Everything was working just fine until I tried to install my D-Link card, one that doesn't have a Prism chip, but an TI chip. I compiled and installed the drivers without any problem and everything worked fine for a couple of hours until the computer totally froze ( I had a huge Windows flashback at that moment). I thouhg the problem might be on the new driver module, so after rebooting I try unloading it. No luck, a couple of minutes or hours (it varies) the system froze again. Perhaps the card is faulty, I thought (though I had tried it succesfully under windows), so I remove it and all went back to normal.

But, since I had serious doubts of the card being faulty, I tried something I had read in some forum, about shuffling cards around to prevent irq mastering problems or something of the sort. I only have two PCI slots, so I tried exchanging the ethernet card in slot 1 and the wireless card in slot 2. I got them both running, only this time I redirected kernel error messages to tty 8 so I could check if anything should failed. Let it run for a couple of hours and......bang!!! it failed again, only this time it didn't froze. The kernel issued the following error messages:
eth1: PCI bus error, bus status 80000020
eth1: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register 0000
eth1: too much work in interrupt, status e003

I still have to test running just one of the cards on slot 2 to discard the possibility of PCI slot 2 being faulty. Howver, I would like to hear some opinions and ideas.
My system config: kernel 2.4.26, Slack 10

Thanx.

NOTE: I already posted this on the Hardware forum, but got no answers. Since Slack users are often the most experienced ones I decided to give it a shot and post my problem on this boards. So, admins of moderators, please don't erase it.

In dmesg were there any messages similar to (not sure of the exact line) "Disabling IRQ # Nobody cared!"