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[Termina <termina AT gmail.com>]

I can't seem to find a ne2000 on my computer, nor on the slackware7.1
mirror. =-/ there is a ne2k-pci, but that's for PCI. xD

Does anyone know where I can find it? Thanks


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:23:09 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan
<keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Anthony Albert wrote:
> 
> > On 16 Feb 2005 at 10:02, Termina wrote:
> >
> >> I see the following information, and it makes no sense to me. ^_^
> >>
> >> Biggest chip: DL2517A (then in small font below it) F26D 116 (then on
> >> a sticker still on the chip) 0080C8 25DD07
> >
> > This is what is the key.  DL2517A (with some Googling) is a DLink
> > Ethernet chip, and it's suggested that it is an NE2000 compatible, so
> > you'll want to try the NE2000 driver module.   I'm guessing that the
> > hardware address of this card will be 00:80:c8:25:dd:07
> >
> > Good luck.   Like all ISA cards, you'll want to make sure that you
> > check IRQ and memory assignments - probably IRQ 10 or 5 is available.
> > The module will likely want them as command-line arguments.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Anthony Albert
> 
> Try:
> 
> insmod 8390
> insmod ne2000 io=0x300 irq=10
> 
> Would this also work without specifying io?  (Does ne2000 have a default?)
> 
> As someone explained recently,
> cat /proc/interrupts
> will list all interrupts which are not free and if you have by some chance
> already used IRQ10 (for sound or scsi) pick something else free.
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