Re: NE2500 NIC

[Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>]

1) /sbin/isapnp
2) Donald Becker home page has links to programs to run that will give you 
info about installed NIC.


> I just salvaged a P100 system that the local university was throwing out and
> am trying to set it up with an NE2500 ethernet card.  The card, however, is
> not cooperating... thanks to Plug 'n' Pray.
> 
> I've found a Red Hat-based NE2500 howto, but it basically boils down to
> 'install the system using a different NIC, then swap cards and manually edit
> the configuration to use the new one'.  The only ISA NICs I have, however,
> are a pair of NE2500s and the card that was in the machine when I got it -
> and I have no idea what kind of card that one is.  (Google searches on the
> more important-looking of the numbers on the chips turned up no matches.  The
> only text is the name "Fil-Mag" on one of the chips, which allowed me to
> identify the chip as a filter.)
> 
> The NE2500s have a DOS-based config program which supposedly lets you turn
> PnP off, but it complains that the card's EEPROM is the wrong revision and I
> need to run the NE2500 patch program.  None of the three floppies that came
> with the card contain any programs whose names suggest that they might patch
> the EEPROM and the (pathetic) docs don't mention it either.  A Google search
> for "ne2500 patch" only turned up sites where they sell both NE2500s and
> patch cables...
> 
> So, any suggestions on how I might get the NE2500s to work for me and/or
> identify the mystery NIC?
> 
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