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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 15 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > One of the four is not working.  
> > insmod rtl8139 -  'device or resource busy'.  
> > I did this three times, powering off each time.  
> > Is this card dead?  
> 
> Does a recent net.i find anything?  If not, biff it.


What might a recent net.i find?  This had the same chip number (rtl8139D) 
as a card that worked, and it is PCI so I don't need to set anything.

 
> > The Kingston ISA card tells me 'No NE*000 card found at 
> > i/o=0x120 when I do insmod ne io=0x300 irq=10 
> 
> As I said before, the irq is not necessary (in fact it will
> mess things up if you use the right address but the wrong IRQ).

For the Winbond 906 I was not able to insmod UNTIL I gave it an IRQ.  I 
tried both ways.  After that ifconfig worked (but the card did not).  THat 
is why I put in the IRQ.  You did not say if the Winbond card (which 
behaves as expected when I type route) is dead, if it does not ping.
  
> > also for 0x280 320 340 360.  
> 
> Yes, those are the most likely io addresses (but not all).
> Try them without the IRQ parameter.

I will try again without the irq, some day, on this Kingston card.

First we have one last computer to set up, and I will try with links this 
time.   I don't follow how to use links to download from another computer.  
How do I view files that are on another computer?  links 192.168.1.2?

My partner pointed out that the Novell 1993 version of what is now called 
DR-DOS (and has been Caldera DOS - who owns the latest non-free version?) 
includes Novell Netware and comes with drivers for ne1000 and many other 
cards that I do not have.  I think I have downloaded Netware-related files 
for some of my cards and will play with this some day too.
 
> Cheers,
> Steven