Re: NE2500 NIC
Phil Brutsche said:
> Hrm... A quick grep through the kernel source indicates that this card
> uses the AMD PCnet (aka lance) chipset. The driver is lance.o. What
> specific problems are you having with this card?
During installation, I haven't been able to come up with a parameter string
which will successfully install the lance.o module. It invariably responds,
"Device or resource busy. Installation failed."
> You might want to try some fairly radical ways of figuring out what this
> mystery card is. It's one of the few things Windows 9x is good for
If I'm going to try that, this is certainly the right time to do it...
> (the
> other two are wasting time and playing computer games. However, some
> might say those two are indistinguishable).
There are many ways to waste time, playing games is just one of the best of
them.
> Could the DOS program tell you what the IRQ & I/O settings are? Based on
> my (admittedly limited) experience with this chipset, they don't use
> jumpers, but still aren't PnP.
Nope. On startup, it displays default values of I/O 0x200, IRQ 3, DMA 7. To
change them, you have to first turn off PnP support. (I tried feeding those
values to lance.o even though IRQ 3 should belong to COM1. Naturally, they
failed.)
> On that thought, AMD's web site might be of some help.
Why AMD? The docs from the NE2500s only mention Microdyne and Eagle. (Of
course, I've had them for a few years... I suppose AMD may have bought that
line out...)
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