Re: NE2500 NIC
Phil Brutsche said: Hrm... A quick grep through the kernel source indicates that this card uses the AMD PCnet (aka lance) chipset. The driver is lance.o. What specific problems are you having with this card? During installation, I haven't been able to come up with a parameter string which will successfully install the lance.o module. It invariably responds, Device or resource busy. Installation failed. You might want to try some fairly radical ways of figuring out what this mystery card is. It's one of the few things Windows 9x is good for If I'm going to try that, this is certainly the right time to do it... (the other two are wasting time and playing computer games. However, some might say those two are indistinguishable). There are many ways to waste time, playing games is just one of the best of them. Could the DOS program tell you what the IRQ I/O settings are? Based on my (admittedly limited) experience with this chipset, they don't use jumpers, but still aren't PnP. Nope. On startup, it displays default values of I/O 0x200, IRQ 3, DMA 7. To change them, you have to first turn off PnP support. (I tried feeding those values to lance.o even though IRQ 3 should belong to COM1. Naturally, they failed.) On that thought, AMD's web site might be of some help. Why AMD? The docs from the NE2500s only mention Microdyne and Eagle. (Of course, I've had them for a few years... I suppose AMD may have bought that line out...) -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Re: NE2500 NIC
Shaul Karl said: 1) /sbin/isapnp 2) Donald Becker home page has links to programs to run that will give you info about installed NIC. Donald's page has a number of ISA card utilities, but they're all tied to specific chipsets. NE2500/Lance is not among them and, of course, trying to use a chipset-specific utility on a mystery card would tend to get you nowhere fast. It looks like a good place to remember for future exploration, though. isapnp was the key, though. Took a bit of playing around before I found pnpdump to give me a start on a config file, and it worked well from there. Thanks! -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
NE2500 NIC
I just salvaged a P100 system that the local university was throwing out and am trying to set it up with an NE2500 ethernet card. The card, however, is not cooperating... thanks to Plug 'n' Pray. I've found a Red Hat-based NE2500 howto, but it basically boils down to 'install the system using a different NIC, then swap cards and manually edit the configuration to use the new one'. The only ISA NICs I have, however, are a pair of NE2500s and the card that was in the machine when I got it - and I have no idea what kind of card that one is. (Google searches on the more important-looking of the numbers on the chips turned up no matches. The only text is the name Fil-Mag on one of the chips, which allowed me to identify the chip as a filter.) The NE2500s have a DOS-based config program which supposedly lets you turn PnP off, but it complains that the card's EEPROM is the wrong revision and I need to run the NE2500 patch program. None of the three floppies that came with the card contain any programs whose names suggest that they might patch the EEPROM and the (pathetic) docs don't mention it either. A Google search for ne2500 patch only turned up sites where they sell both NE2500s and patch cables... So, any suggestions on how I might get the NE2500s to work for me and/or identify the mystery NIC? -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Re: NE2500 NIC
1) /sbin/isapnp 2) Donald Becker home page has links to programs to run that will give you info about installed NIC. I just salvaged a P100 system that the local university was throwing out and am trying to set it up with an NE2500 ethernet card. The card, however, is not cooperating... thanks to Plug 'n' Pray. I've found a Red Hat-based NE2500 howto, but it basically boils down to 'install the system using a different NIC, then swap cards and manually edit the configuration to use the new one'. The only ISA NICs I have, however, are a pair of NE2500s and the card that was in the machine when I got it - and I have no idea what kind of card that one is. (Google searches on the more important-looking of the numbers on the chips turned up no matches. The only text is the name Fil-Mag on one of the chips, which allowed me to identify the chip as a filter.) The NE2500s have a DOS-based config program which supposedly lets you turn PnP off, but it complains that the card's EEPROM is the wrong revision and I need to run the NE2500 patch program. None of the three floppies that came with the card contain any programs whose names suggest that they might patch the EEPROM and the (pathetic) docs don't mention it either. A Google search for ne2500 patch only turned up sites where they sell both NE2500s and patch cables... So, any suggestions on how I might get the NE2500s to work for me and/or identify the mystery NIC? -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: NE2500 NIC
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I just salvaged a P100 system that the local university was throwing out and am trying to set it up with an NE2500 ethernet card. The card, however, is not cooperating... thanks to Plug 'n' Pray. Hrm... A quick grep through the kernel source indicates that this card uses the AMD PCnet (aka lance) chipset. The driver is lance.o. What specific problems are you having with this card? The only ISA NICs I have, however, are a pair of NE2500s and the card that was in the machine when I got it - and I have no idea what kind of card that one is. You might want to try some fairly radical ways of figuring out what this mystery card is. It's one of the few things Windows 9x is good for (the other two are wasting time and playing computer games. However, some might say those two are indistinguishable). The last time I tried SuSE (around 6.1 or so) it had a pretty nifty PnP setup where it would try to load all NIC drivers until it found one that worked. You might try that. (Google searches on the more important-looking of the numbers on the chips turned up no matches. The only text is the name Fil-Mag on one of the chips, which allowed me to identify the chip as a filter.) I find that Google is useless more often than not - Yahoo! still works better (IMO). The NE2500s have a DOS-based config program which supposedly lets you turn PnP off, but it complains that the card's EEPROM is the wrong revision and I need to run the NE2500 patch program. Could the DOS program tell you what the IRQ I/O settings are? Based on my (admittedly limited) experience with this chipset, they don't use jumpers, but still aren't PnP. On that thought, AMD's web site might be of some help. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
