I waited in the hope that someone who knows this card specifically would
respond. Not seeing any, I'll try my poor best to suggest some ideas.
You say "the card is apparently detected at 0x300 base i/o and IRQ 10". Are
you probing for both IRQ and IO port? If not, you may need to -- 0x300 is
the default IO port for this driver, and it may be the wrong one for the
actual card (or do you know?).
If the module is successfully probing for the card IRQ and IO port, your
choice of driver is unlikely to be your problem (but maybe ... see #6
below). Instead, I'd look for possible other problems.
1. Can the Linux host ping itself (as localhost)?
2. Does /proc/interrupts show the NIC on IRQ 10? Or is something else on the
IRQ?
3. Does /proc/ioports actually show the card at 0x300? Or is something else
at theis address or in its range?
4. Are you pinging the Win95 host by name or address? If you're using name,
try using the address and see if that makes a difference (you might have a
problem with DNS or /etc/hosts).
5. Do you have routing set up properly? What is the output of "route -n?"?
6. There is also a module eepro (at least there is in later Slackwares; 96
is pretty old) that you might try instead of eexpress.
At 04:09 PM 2/16/99 -0800, David W. Robinson wrote:
>
>I have an Intel EtherExpress 16 network card installed in my Linux
>box (Slackware 96 CD-ROM). I am currently running the eexpress.c
>module via rc.modules. On boot up the card is apparently detected at
>0x300 base i/o and IRQ 10 and I get no errors. Also ifconfig seems
>to check out correctly. However when I try to ping my Win95
>machine I get no response. In fact the link light on the card never
>comes on. Is there a specific driver for the Intel Etherexpress 16
>network adapter? If so where can I get it.
> All information much appreciated.
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