[Wylug-help] ISA Network card

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, FENTON Mark John wrote:

> Other Genius Networking Cards
> GE2500 Series : NE2000 compatible PCI card
> **E2000 Series : NE2000 compatible ISA card, IRQ needs to be specified**
> GF100TXR: Configure as Realtek RTL8129/8139
> GF100TXRII: Configure as Realtek RTL8129/8139
>
> All very well, as the card is 10MBs only I assume it is the old sounding
> GE2000, so I have tried the NE2000 module (also tried the generic realtek

Yup.  Most likely the NE2k compatible one.  Most generic ISA cards were in
one way or another...

> module) but without an IRQ (or IO address) it makes no difference - the kernel
> cannot detect a card at the specified address.

Have you tried giving random IO addresses?  0x280, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, or
0x360 will typically cover all possibilities.

> Re. using the dos disk to get out of PnP mode - does this mean I have to put
> the card in a windows machine (if I can get hold of a disk)?

If it's PnP, then go with either pnpdump or cat /proc/isapnp to list what's
available in PnP cards, and get the IO from there.

ISA sucks, but ISAPnP, if handled correctly, doesn't suck in excessive
quantities.


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