Re: using old isa bus ethernet cards
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Debian User wrote:
> i have two isa ethernet cards that i have that i wish to use in a
> test machine here at work. i think one is an intel chip and the
> other ... who knows.
>
> one chip number is LG82000 ... the other is S82595FX L7093628. I
> searched Debian for a previous post and even googled but have not
> found any information on which modules to load when using antiques.
>
> can anyone help? is there a module that has drivers supporting these
> chips?
>
I had one of the latter (82595FX) but it was an Intel clone: yours may be
just a straight Intel. It used the eepro.o module (NOT eepro100!). Mine
required a DOS program to fiddle with settings (irq, io, disable pnp) -
it's available at Intel's site (think it's called "softset.exe"). Maybe
isapnp tools can deal with this: I didn't try that, so can't say for sure.
I was using an older Linux with this card, kernel 2.2.16, and I had a lot
of headaches getting it to work. I finally got it working by stipulating
the io at boot time *and* using a module from the 2.2.19 kernel and
forcing it to load under 2.2.16. Maybe later kernels/modules will not
have these problems.
James
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