On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Re: ethernet not working
(part 2):
> refused to see the card. Is your card ISA or PCI? If it is PCI I recommend
> you use irq=10
Possably a good point brought about by a irrelavant answer.
1) The good point is, the origanal question asker said he is using ne.o
which if for "ISA cards".
2) AFAIK no one even asked if it was a ISA card or PCI. Not even me.
3) NE2000 PCI cards use ne2k-pci.o
Further more PCI cards can use any IRQ providing the BIOS is set for
PCI/PNP. Even use IRQ's which are already in use by other PCI cards.
An example is my over crowded machine IRQ 9
9: 301439 XT-PIC aic7xxx, es1371
I have even seen 3 cards on one IRQ here in my machine.
The most important thing with any ISA card is to resurve an IRQ in the
BIOS, set (for example) IRQ 10 to PNP only, then make sure your ethernet
card gets loaded BEFORE any other IRQ grabbing ISA card.
We all have IRQ problems from time to time, my NE2000 ISA card will not
work on a distibution slackware kernel becuase there MUST be another driver
compiled into the kernel which then resurves IRQ10 (in my case).
Like i said, i have to recompile a kernel with ne.o support before i can
use slackware with my ne card, however this could be an oversight on my
part.
I have a standard card which is set to io=0x300 like most of its friends
or so i have been told.
> Noah
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Regards Richard
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