8003EP nic installation woes...

[mullena@iwon.com]

Greetings;

I have a 8003EP nic in a 32MB/3GB 486/50.  I have the base system installed
via floppy (no cd).  I *could* install more of Debian via ppp.  But since
I have access to a T1+ line I'd much prefer to install via the network.

But I can't get the dang-blamed card configured.

I went to www.smc.com and picked up a copy of ezstart and diagnose.  Diagnose
gave me parameters of io=0x300 irq=5 mem=0xCA000, with a ram size of 8k.
 EZStart gave me parameters io=0x300 irq=5 and what it said was a ram window
of CA00-CBFF.

Both programs performed tests and the card passed all of them.

Here are the parameters I used with the wd module with no success;
io=0x300 irq=5 (these never changed)
mem=0xCA000 mem_end=0xCBFFF
mem=0xCA000 mem_end=0xCC000
mem=0xCA00 mem_end=CxCBFF
mem=0xCA000
mem=0xCA00

The error messages are:
wd.c: No wd0x3 card found (i/o = 0x300)
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/wd.o init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/wd.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/wd.o
failed
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/wd.o: insmod wd failed

I even opened up the box to look at the card.  The jumper is set to 0x300
5 0xCA000.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Tony -

ps - If this is a duplicate I'm sorry.  I took too long composing the first
time and my session may have timed out.



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