Maybe you could try expirimenting with insmod from the command line:
insmod ne.o io=0x320 irq=5
Once you figure out what makes your system happy then you can write it
to your config.
Best Regards
Phil Z.
"Richardson, Tony" wrote:
>
> I've got two Microdyne NE2000+ cards in a computer
> system and I can't seem to get them to both work.
> (They work fine under Win95, so I don't think it is
> a hardware problem.)
>
> I've built the driver as modules and my conf.modules file
> looks like this:
>
> alias eth0 ne
> alias eth1 ne
> options ne io=0x320,0x340
>
> This comes straight from the Ethernet HOWTO, but doesn't seem to
> work for me. I've also tried specifying the IRQs on the options
> line, but still no luck. I've also tried loading the module twice
> as suggested in the HOWTO.
>
> The error message I get in the system log says "No valid signature
> found at 0x340" and then prints some hex numbers. I assume it's trying
> to read something from the card IO ports and not getting what is expected.
> I'm certain the 0x340 address is correct. I configured it that way using
> a DOS based configuration utility and Win95 reports that it is using this
> value. (These are not PNP cards, but are software configurable. I believe
> the resource settings are stored on the card in EEPROM or some such.)
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Tony Richardson
>
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