Being as I use 3com cards, I can say that if you set them to Base 300, IRQ 10, and set
STN To autodetect the IRQ, and leave base address blank, it will find them every time.
If you actually set it as Base 300 and IRQ 10 in the STN setup program, the detection
will fail.
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:27:17
Chris Fite wrote:
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>STN cannot find your card.
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>Auto won't necessarily work for legacy NICs. The 486 grade card
>needs to have the address set under DOS. You can download a program
>from 3Com to set the base address on the card under DOS. Then the
>plug and pray settings will be fixed to the value you set. When
>Linux (STN) looks at the card the value will be known by the data you
>have set on it to be what you enter in the IRQ and base address
>settings in STN.
>
>Chris
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