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.
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