Re: Again NE2000 network device
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:58:56AM -0700, idalton@ferret.dyndns.org wrote:
| On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:03:25PM +0200, Bj?rn Fischer wrote:
| > Hello,
| > it is me again, trying to start the "ne" module. Now the module is actually
| > trying to start, but alway quits with the message "Resource or device busy".
| > I started the ne module with the following parameters:
| >
| > modprobe ne io=0x260 irq=9
| >
| > The io and irq are the ones windos promted when having a look at the
| > resources of the card.
| > I have had a look into either /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts, and 0x260
| > and 9 was not occupied by a different device.
| >
| > Does someone of you know what to do?
| >
| > Very thankful for an answer
|
| Is it a PnP or a soft-config card?
If it is PnP, then you will want to turn it off. I have a couple of
NetGear EA-201 (ISA PnP NE2k clones) that I first used the DOS utility
they came with to disable PnP. Then I could insmod the ne module and
specify the base io and it works quite well.
HTH,
-D
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