NE2000 PnP ethernet card issue
CSM 'illovae' Seldon
I have on my station a "PnP NE2000 PLUG & PLAY ETHERNET CARD" and I'm
trying to get the network with it.
I know that this card is working because, on the same machine, on a
different OS (debian) this card is working very well. That's my dmesg
from debian:
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x220:00:00:e8:3c:b3:3c
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x220, using IRQ 5.
I'm trying to make it work using the NE2000.COM Packet driver from
Crynwr Software. With the information I've got from my debian, I tried
this :
C:\...\NE2000.COM 0x60 5 0x220
System: [345]86 processor, ISA bus, Two 8259s
Packet driver software interrupt is 0x60 (96)
Interrupt number 0x9 (9)
I/O port 0x220
My Ethernet address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
As you see, there is a problem: wrong MAC address. So I tried with 0x60
to 0x66 for 'packet_int_no' and from 0x220 to 0x360 for my 'io_addr'.
But nothing seems to work (default on 0x300 doesn't work too).
I read that possibly my issue is coming from the fact that my card is
Plug&Play. Maybe I have to load other drivers before ? I'm unable to
find what kind of drivers should I have to use for this...
Maybe someone had experienced the same thing, or had this same card
working ? Thank you very much.
Regards,
--illovae.
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CSM 'illovae' Seldon <gopher://druuna.dud-t.org>
Ted Davis
If I remember right, the biggest problem with those cards was finding a
free IRQ that the card could be configured for. Normally, in AT class
machines, IRQ5 was free because the disk controller had been moved to
IRQ14. Try the real NE2000 PnP driver from Novell:
<http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=71820>.
For PNP to work, it has to be enabled in the BIOS on older machines.
I'm not even sure they work in newer machines with MS operating systems.
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T.E.D. (tda...@mst.edu)