Re: ISA network card
I got the value 0x340 through trial and error. All the others fail the
initial ne2000 probe.
dsl-093-a:~# ne2k-diag -p 0x340
Checking the ethercard at 0x340.
Receive alignment error counter (0x34d) is 00
Passed initial NE2000 probe, value 00.
Station Address PROM 0: 00 00 40 40 33 33 37 37 e1 e1 6e 6e 05 05 01 01
Station Address PROM 0x10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 57 57 57 57
NE2000 found at 0x340, using start page 0x40 and end page 0x80.
The current MAC stations address is 00:40:33:37:E1:6E.
dsl-093-a:~#
The only IRQ related option I saw was -Q, to set the IRQ line.
The card doesn't have any jumpers on it. The exact model number is:
Winbond W89C905F. I wasn't able to locate that chip on the Winbond site.
However, most of the Googling I've tried has included Linux as a keyword.
When I try 'modprobe ne io=0x340' it reports:
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: failed to detect IRQ line.
ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x340
then the standard modprobe error lines.
dmesg has two sections that report about ne.c:
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: 00 40 33 37 e1 6e
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x340, using IRQ 5.
about 10 lines from the end of the output
-- and --
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: failed to detect IRQ line.
ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x340
at the end of the dmesg output.
So, I'm curious why that first part seems to find the card but the
second part doesn't.
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Nick Traxler
Computer Science, Purdue University
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On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Rainer Ellinger wrote:
> Nick Traxler wrote:
> > Any ideas? I'm not sure if the interrupt can be arbitrary or if I
> > have to find a way to read it off the card.
>
> Could you please give the full output of ne2k-diag?
>
> Usually the IRQ is reported, too. If this is not a PnP card, you need
> to reserve the interrupt in your BIOS setup, section "PNP and PCI"
> manually for ISA usage. But you need to know the right interrupt
> before, not just a guess.
>
> If ne2k-diag doesn't report the interrupt of your card, you've to
> examine the card for jumper settings. Additionally, you might have a
> MS-DOS based setup program from the vendor.
>
> Please also grep the output from system startup with dmesg or from
> /var/log/dmesg. Only assign io=0x340 when loading the ne module, don't
> assign a interrupt. What does the kernel report concerning the
> interrupt in dmesg?
>
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