Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

[Art Edwards <edwardsa@thuntek.net>]

I hope this is not too late. I have several machines running NE2000 ISA
cards. To get them to work I had to use DOS to turn off the plug-n-play
feature and to assure that each is using a different IRQ and io address.
For single NIC machines, I compiled ne into the kernel, making sure that
the IO and IRQ parameters matched the card. For the dual card machine, I
installed ne as a module. My memory is a little faint on this, but I
believe that with two cards using different IRQ's and different IO
addresses, the module will automatically start up the two interfaces IF
you modify the file /etc/network/interfaces by including stanzas like
the following

iface eth0 inet static
        address 10.0.0.2
        netmask 255.0.0.0
        network 10.0.0.0
        broadcast 10.255.255.255
#       gateway 10.0.0.1

iface eth1 inet static
        address 192.168.1.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 10.0.0.1

Note that one is open to the outside world and one is for the inner
network.

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Arthur H. Edwards
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