[Nottingham] Invisible NIC

[Stephen Hodgson]

Hi James.

James Gibbon <james.gibbon at virgin.net> asked:

> Is there anything I can do, or is it a lost cause?  Any way to know if my
> Compaq's PCI slots are "2.1 or higher"?

As far as I'm aware the best way to determine whether your motherboard 
is using PCI 2.1 or not is to find out how old it is: If it predates the 
mid-1990s it's probably an older PCI standard otherwise it should be PCI 
2.1, in all likelihood.

Stephen Hodgson