Intel EtherExpress 16 cards

[Andrew Gillham]

Bob Nestor writes:
>
> I take it this is done with some program under Windows? There aren't any
> jumpers on the board and the guy we bought them from told us to pull the
> boot ROMs if we were going to use them with a disk based OS.
> Unfortunately they didn't come with any software.

You want to find 'SOFTSET', or 'SOFTSET2' from Intel's ftp/web site.
It is a DOS program that allows you to reconfigure the EEPROM settings.
As someone else noted, you really need to configure the card to the
exact settings the driver expects.

-Andrew
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[Bob Nestor]

A friend recently picked up a stack of Intel EtherExpress 16 cards at a
flea market intending to use them with NetBSD/i386 and Windows-98/NT.
The cards are listed as supported by NetBSD and they were found to be in
working condition when tested with Windows-98. However, the NetBSD-1.3,
NetBSD-1.4.1, and -current kernels never see them. Windows identifies
the cards as "Intel EtherExpress 16 or 16Pro-Tx" cards. They come with a
10Base-T and 15-pin female connector and fit into a half-height card
slot.

Is it possible these cards are a different variant of the ones NetBSD
supports?

Is it possible NetBSD support for them is somehow broken and the
documentation hasn't been updated?

Is anyone in a position and interested in working on a driver for these
cards? I have one working card that I will give to anyone who can get it
working, and they can keep it afterwards.

Thanks,
-bob

[Martin J. Laubach]

| >These should be supported by the ix or iy driver, depending on whether
| >they're EE/16 or EE Pro 10 ISA. They suffer from the usual problem of
| >ISA cards that if they're not at the I/O address the kernel knows
| >about, they'll never be found.

Also note that the EE16 driver (ix) is very (*very*) picky
about the memory addresses and size. AFAIK you have to use
C000, C800, D000 or D800 with a memory size of 32K or the
card will not be probed successfully!

mjl

[Nathan J. Williams]

<dae...@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Bob Nestor) writes:

> A friend recently picked up a stack of Intel EtherExpress 16 cards at a
> flea market intending to use them with NetBSD/i386 and Windows-98/NT.
> The cards are listed as supported by NetBSD and they were found to be in
> working condition when tested with Windows-98. However, the NetBSD-1.3,
> NetBSD-1.4.1, and -current kernels never see them. Windows identifies
> the cards as "Intel EtherExpress 16 or 16Pro-Tx" cards. They come with a
> 10Base-T and 15-pin female connector and fit into a half-height card
> slot.

These should be supported by the ix or iy driver, depending on whether

they're EE/16 or EE Pro 10 ISA. They suffer from the usual problem of
ISA cards that if they're not at the I/O address the kernel knows

about, they'll never be found. The GENERIC i386 kernel looks for ix at
port 300 and iy at port 360. Check under Windows and see where the
cards are.

Also, the iy needs to not be in ISA Plug-n-Play mode; we don't have an
isapnp driver for it.

- Nathan

[Bob Nestor]

Thanks, we'll check it out.

>Also, the iy needs to not be in ISA Plug-n-Play mode; we don't have an
>isapnp driver for it.

I take it this is done with some program under Windows? There aren't any

jumpers on the board and the guy we bought them from told us to pull the
boot ROMs if we were going to use them with a disk based OS.
Unfortunately they didn't come with any software.

-bob