On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:43:09 +0530
> > Ethernet card (1)Realtek RTL8029 (2) Compex ReadyLink RL2000en
> > The first one gets detected PnP. The address is 0x6200 and the IRQ=10.
> > The second one I've not managed to getup till now.
>
> I used exactly the same cards with RedHat 5.1 and they worked
> fine. Of course after solving some obvious problems - what port
> and irq are assigned to which card (the worse, I have 3 cards).
> I noticed driver for NE2000 clones (what is its name: ne? ne2?
> ne2k?) finds these PCI boards, too, therefore I needed load
> their driver first to use it, then the driver for NE2000-s.
Both the 'ne' and 'ne2k-pci' drivers will work with the PCI NE2000 clones.
You should always use the 'ne2k-pci' driver for PCI cards:
The PCI driver automatically detects all cards and reads the proper IRQ.
The PCI driver will enable sharing of PCI IRQs
(A PCI driver that doesn't share PCI IRQs causes many bug reports,
as do drivers that imcorrectly try to share with SA_INTERRUPT|SA_SHIRQ)
With most chips the PCI driver can use 32 bit (vs 16 bit) data transfers.
The PCI driver accepts the standard set of PCI driver options
(Note: Only a few chip types support the full_duplex[] setting.)
Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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