Hello Eric,
On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:36:19 MST Eric House wrote:
I'm trying to convert a working two-floppy Bering RC2 system to one
where the second floppy is replaced by a CD -- since the machine I'm
using has one floppy drive and one CD-ROM.
The problem I'm having isn't with making the CD, but with getting the
CD-ROM working. The CD-ROM's controller lives not on the motherboard
but instead on an old soundblaster card which until now wasn't in the
machine. When I put it in the machine Bering no longer works. The
reason is that ne.o no longer finds my Linksys Ether16 combo card at
io=0x320. I assume the soundblaster card has taken over that io
address, but the truth is I'm over my head at this point. (I was
working on Macs when this hardware was current.)
If you're over your head, you sure seem to be swimming well.
Based on the remainder of your post, it sounds like you have
already identified the problem and just need to find a way to
fix it.
I'm not even sure the soundblaster card is being recognized by my
Bering setup, since I haven't added any modules for it. But it is
preventing the Linksys card from being recognized.
With the system working (soundblaster removed), /proc/ioports lists a
3c509 (eth0) at 0x300-0x30f and eth1 (my Linksys) at 0x320-0x33F.
[/proc/ioport dump snipped]
With the soundblaster in, the 3c509 card shows up in /proc/ioports,
but neither the soundblaster (AFAIK) nor Linksys does.
Without the linksys NIC in and with the soundblaster modules loaded,
the soundblaster would probably show up. It might be worth checking
because that will identify the ports the SB is using and tell you
if the setup is viable if you can get the linksys NIC ports moved.
Any suggestions on how to proceed? It doesn't appear from the Linksys
site as if that card can be manually given a new io address. Does
this mean I have to reprogram the soundblaster card?
It looks like you *might* be able to adjust the IO ports. From
http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=55 :
The Ether16's setup utility will appear. Using the arrow
keys on your keyboard, configure the card's Connector Type,
Interrupt (IRQ), and I/O address.
Of course I might be missing something or reading the wrong docs.
There are a set of driver disks at
http://www.linksys.com/download/driver.asp?dlid=12osid=1
for the LNE2000 that might have the setup utility referenced from
the support URL above. Looks like you would need a WinXX PC to
use them.
Or should I find a slightly more modern machine? :-)
That's one approach. :) Another would be to find another
3c509...I know you can change IRQs and IO port addys on those.
--Brad
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