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Article #55751Re: ethernet cards - experience?
From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00
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tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au (Tony Langdon) writes: >It's 05 May 97 10:52, >We'll return to mbartz@werple.net.au and All's >discussion of ethernet cards - experience? > mb> Linux has difficulty detecting NE2000 cards. Pass > mb> ``ether=11,0x240,eth0'' or whatever is appropriate for your system, > mb> to your kernel. >I've never had a problem with NE2000 detection, even with cheap clones. >Every card I've used with Linux gets autodetected (Linux often does a >better job than the commercial OS's at hardware detection :-) ). The linux driver only looks for ne2000 cards at the following places: 0x300, 0x280, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360 and so a boot prompt was in fact required for detection at 0x240. Paul.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,a3051fdc9cea5513 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: gpg109-NOSPAM@anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) Subject: Re: ethernet cards - experience? Date: 1997/05/07 Message-ID: <5konl2$6uf@leonard.anu.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 239863759 Sender: gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au References: <336c3a42.2038551@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <m23es23idd.fsf@reddwarf.aup.com.au> <4ed_9705070701@freeway.DIALix.oz.au> Organization: Australian National University Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux