Well I solved this problem very simply: get a machine whose ISA slots actually work! After having successfully used the WD8003 card on 4 other machines, but not this one, I decided there must be something wrong with this one. So I tried another machine and it all went first pop!
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > I am trying to install a wavelan card into a linux box. The setup is: > Digital Celebris XL 5166 > Digital DE450 PCI Combo Ethernet Card (using tulip driver) > Western Digital (wd8003) 8-bit (el-cheapo) Ethernet card (using wd driver) > Built-In NCR SCSI Host (using 53c7,8xx driver) > Adaptec 2940 Ultr-Wide PCI SCSI (using aic7xxx driver) > (some PCI video card, who cares) > > The wavelan card I want to install is: > NCR Wavelan v1.04 (930406), IRQ 10, Port 300 > > I have tried having the drivers for the 2 ethernet cards, and the wavelan > card, as modules, but the wavelan card is not recognised initially and the > DE450 is assigned IRQ 10 (is that how PCI does it, just looks for a free > one?) and so I cannot load the wavelan driver anymore? > > I tried another tack: compiled the wavelan driver into the kernel and left > the other 2 as modules, sure enough it now assigns the DE450 to eth1 but > still uses IRQ 10, so I'm still stuffed. > > I noticed that the driver for the wavelan probes only at 0x390, whereas I > believe this card is at 0x300 so I altered the wavelan.c file to match > this, but still no go! 8<--------------------------------------->8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8<--------------------------------------->8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
