Thanks for the replies. It turns out that it was an IRQ conflict with an old
Despite checking the BIOS and running the 3c509 setup utility on
http://www.scyld.com/diag, the 2.4 kernel still picked a card on IRQ 5 and 10.
It works fine now that the sound card is removed, but I'm still confused as to
why this worked in 2.2.18 but not 2.4.19, seems like a regression to me...

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> Thanks for the replies. It turns out that it was an IRQ conflict with an old
> Despite checking the BIOS and running the 3c509 setup utility on
> http://www.scyld.com/diag, the 2.4 kernel still picked a card on IRQ 5 and 10.
> It works fine now that the sound card is removed, but I'm still confused as to
> why this worked in 2.2.18 but not 2.4.19, seems like a regression to me...
I'm jumping in here since I'm just back on
ILUG after quite a long break, anyway...
Alan Cox was mentioning that he might have borked
some PNP stuff lately. You could try 2.4.19-ac4