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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 9 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > Any ISA NIC with jumpers that is supported under Linux should 
> > work fine for you.  Most I've had to specify to insmod is IRQ 
> > - base address has not been needed.  
> 
> ISA NE2000 NICs need the io address (but not the IRQ).
> ------------------
> insmod 8390
> insmod ne io=0x300
> ------------------


I got four PCI ethernet cards working now including two with ne2k-pci.
This last one is plain ne and is also ISA.   Are all ne ISA cards 
io=0x300?  Is there some way to determine the address?  A winbond chip.

I tried using net.i kernel but it got stuck at com90xx.c this time.  (With 
the 4 pci cards it booted into linux).

> 
> None of my other NICs need io addresses (nor IRQs)
> -----------    ---------------    ---------------    --------------
> insmod 8390    insmod 8390        insmod eepro100    insmod rtl8139
> insmod wd      insmod ne2k-pci    ---------------    --------------
> -----------    ---------------


Does this mean that some ethernet cards do NOT need 8390 first?  I have
been doing 8390 before tulip, is that needed? 


> Cheers,
> Steven