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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> 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 did a search on linux 3c509 ISA address and found a probably answer:


8.1. Multiple Ethernet Card per Machine

......
   Problem  1.  If  the  driver(s)  of the card(s) is/are being used as a
   loadable  module  modularized  kernel, in the case of PCI drivers, the
   module will typically detect all of the installed cards automatically.

*** For  ISA cards, you need to supply the I/O base address of the card so
   the module knows where to look. This information is stored in the file
   /etc/conf.modules.

   Example 8-1. Two ISA ethernet cards

   Consider  we have two ISA 3c509 cards, one at I/O 0x300 and one at I/O
   0x320. For ISA cards, edit the conf.modules file, vi /etc/conf.modules
   and add:
             alias eth0 3c509
             alias eth1 3c509
             options 3c509 io=0x300,0x320

   This  says  that  the 3c509 driver should be loaded for either eth0 or
   eth1  alias  eth0,  eth1  and  it  should  be  loaded with the options
   io=0x300,0x320  so that the drivers knows where to look for the cards.
   Note  that  0x  is important, things like 300h as commonly used in the
   DOS world wont work.


I think if I put in this alias then I type insmod eth0 without the 
address, right?  Or I type
insmode 3c509 io-0x300  (or 0x320 - would that also work?).

   For  PCI  cards,  you typically only need the alias lines to correlate
   the  ethN  interfaces  with the appropriate driver name, since the I/O
   base  of  a  PCI  card can be safely detected. For PCI cards, edit the
   conf.modules file vi /etc/conf.modules and add:
             alias eth0 3c509
             alias eth1 3c509