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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> >    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 and add:
> >                  alias eth0 3c509
> >                  alias eth1 3c509
> >                  options 3c509 io=0x300,0x320
> >
> > I think if I put in this alias then I type insmod eth0  
> > without the address, right?  
> 
> No.  insmod does not look in /etc/conf.modules

So what is the above all about?  Elsewhere I read modules.conf not 
conf.modules. 

> > Or I type insmode 3c509 io-0x300 
> 
> That should be: insmod 3c509 io=0x300

Thanks for the correction, but it turns out I also need to add irq=10

> > (or 0x320 - would that also work?).
> 
> It will only work if 0x320 is the actual address of the card.
> In your example, the address of the first card is 0x300 and
> the address of the second card in 0x320.  What the actual 
> address of your card is, I do not know.  However, it is 
> probably not an issue.  A simple "insmod 3c509" will probably 
> auto-detect the address.  AFAIK only a ne2000 ISA card requires 
> an address in the insmod.  
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 

winbond w89c906 is an ne2000 ISA card and I am trying to make it work by 
typing in the address, which I finally confirmed is 0x300 using a 
diagnostic utility downloaded from driverguide (906setup.exe).  But it 
would not do anything useful until I also gave it the irq.

Do you mean other ISA cards than ne2000 don't need the address?
Is ne2000 a standard, like VESA?  My other ISA card also uses it (3com).  
Two PCI cards use ne2k-pci, another standard?  If so, why did the 100Mbit 
cards switch to something nonstandard so as to make all this work for us?