Boy this is a weird one. I bought an external modem and set it up.

Once I got it running, I figured I should pull the old! ISA modem card out.

I did that and got a slew of nasty error messages saying that that emu10k1 found an unused interrupt. The screen generated this message over and over filling it. The computer booted but there was no sound.

I tried this a second time. The computer never finished completely booting and then locked up. I had to manually fsck the drive to get Knoppix to boot again. I lost my desktop settings and had to redo them.

Once I did that I put the old modem card back in, and booted with no problems.

Any Linux experts out there have an idea what's going on?

For now the old modem card is staying in place.

sakiZ