Marshall Lake wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
>
> > > I'm new at ethernet'ing. I found an old SMC Elite16 board and installed
> > > it in my Linux box. I can't get Linux to recognize this board. Does
> > > Linux even support this board? I'm running 2.0.34.
> > >
> > > I'm loading the smc9194 driver via rc.modules. I assume this is the
> > > correct driver?
> > >
> > > ifconfig doesn't show anything concering eth0. As far as I can tell the
> > > board is set to use IRQ 7. An entry for 7 does not show up in
> > > /proc/interrupts.
> > >
> > > Running dmesg shows me only these two pertinent (I believe) messages:
> > > SMC9194: You shouldn't use auto-probing with insmod! (I don't understand
> > > what this message means.)
> > > and
> > > loading device 'eth0' ...
>
> > I'm using the same ethernet card and Linux recognize this card without probem.
> >
> > First, be sure that the card is properly recognize under MS-DOS with DIAGNOSE
> > Next, you must recompile the Kernel : go in Network device support an choose
> > Western Digital/SMC cards
> > and WD80*3 support
>
> I've recompiled 2.0.36 and included the above without using modules.
> However, I'm having a problem setting the IRQ, etc. The manual I have
> doesn't match the actual board I have. The manual talks about the W1 and
> W2 jumpers. I have many more jumpers than that, and there is nothing
> labeled W1 or W2, nor does anything match the explanation in the manual.
> Can you tell me what your board looks like?
>
> Marshall Lake - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://melake.erols.com
> http://melake.erols.com/~the-beach http://melake.erols.com/~genealogy
Hi,
Of course, you have a jumper call W1 on your SMC EtherCard PLUS Elite16 mixte :
look better you should move the jumper on a IRQ
bye
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