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Sindi Keesan wrote:
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> > That should be: insmod 3c509 io=0x300
> 
> Thanks for the correction, but it turns out I also need to add irq=10

AFAIK, with one NIC, all you need is:  insmod 3c509

> Do you mean other ISA cards than ne2000 don't need the address?

I have used four different types of ISA cards with Linux.
Only the ne2000 required a parameter.  

> Is ne2000 a standard, 

It is the most common standard for ISA NICs.  

> Two PCI cards use ne2k-pci, another standard?  

That's just the PCI version of ne.  Same as pcnet is the PCMCIA
version of ne.  

BL3 comes with modules for all three versions (ne, ne2k-pci, 
pcnet_cs) plus the helper module (8390) which they all require.

Cheers,
Steven








If so, why did the 100Mbit 
> cards switch to something nonstandard so as to make all this work for us?
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