> > Yes. I have two of them in the 486 I use as a router. Just keep an > MS-DOS boot disk handy. > > Snippets from `dmesg` : > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 read-only ether=11,0x300,eth0 > ether=15,0x320,eth1 mem=8192K > > 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 0x300: 00 40 05 9e bd bf > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 11. > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x320: 00 40 05 9e 8d ba > eth1: NE2000 found at 0x320, using IRQ 15. > > /etc/modutils/local.conf: > # the Netgear EA-201 NE2k clone ISA ethernet adapter > alias eth0 ne > alias eth1 ne > options ne io=0x300,0x320 > > > You need to keep an MS-DOS boot disk handy so you can set the base IO > address and IRQ for the card. Instead of using jumpers, these cards > use a programmable chip, and an MS-DOS program on the floppy that > comes in the box. Just FYI, that utility attempts to be smart about > conflicts, so make sure you run it with the box the card will end up > in, or in a box that has the same set of used vs. unused IO/IRQ. (my > router has no floppy, so I tried setting one of the cards in another > box that had other ISA cards and the utility wouldn't let me create a > "conflict") > > -D > > -- > "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and > impossible to accomplish complex actions." > --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards) > > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ excellent! thanks d-man. this is not the first time you have given me excellent advice that i will follow. take care, jason -- Jason M. Harvey me@jharv.com http://www.jharv.com
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