On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Gul Evek wrote:
> Can anyone help with a suggestion for the actual address for my
> network card ? It is a Realtek 8029 PCI card which works fine with
> Windows 98. In the Win 98 properties, it show up as IRQ 9 and I/O of
> 1040 - 105F, which does seem a bit high compared with the usual 0x300
> etc.
It isn't. PCI addresses are higher than ISA addresses.
>
> The motherboard is a Gigabyte TX3 which allocates the address to the
> card on boot up. It is always 1040 - 105F and IRQ 9, (in Win 98
> anyway).
>
> However, if I set the card up as a NE2000 compatible under SuSe Linux
> V5.2, with the command :-
>
> io=0x1040
>
> The boot up sequence (dmesg) is unable to locate the card at this
> address and the network fails. I've done this stacks of times before,
> but with (not so clever) ISA network cards and it all works fine.
What kernel are you using ? Somewhere between 2.0.30 and 2.0.35 a PCI
ne2000 clone driver was added to the kernel, after which the standard
NE2000 driver doesn't work anymore with PCI cards (Well, at least with my
Winbond cards)
Frank
> Anyone come across this before and could suggest a cure ? Any help
> most welcome.
>
> TIA,
>
> Evek.
>
