Thanks to you all for your support and useful info.
Since it's not working yet, there are some more informations/
tests I did yesterday.
Changing cables doesn't seem to make things any different.
PCMCIA cable connector blinks as expected in normal operations
The same applies to Desktop card leds.
Several people pointed out that I was using IO 0x280 and IRQ 5,
which is Soundblaster's default. Then I:
removed soundblaster
reconfigured jumper on dektop card to useI/O 0x280, IRQ 11
NOTE: the network card datasheet says:
ISA full duplex ethernet with plug and play feature,
"...it is a ISA bus and a Plug&Play + jumper + jumperless
+full duplex Ethernet card"
I configured Jumpers to Disable Plug and Play function,
enable jumper mode
Result: no improvement yet, some interesting messages in dmesg, see
below
TIA,
Marco
>>>>dmesg|tail on desktop
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280: 00 c0 26 ce 18 ac
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x280, using IRQ 11.
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x2, t=745.
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x2, t=7500.
tcpdump uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
>>>>dmesg|tail sul desktop, after reboot, with LAPTOP off
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280: 00 c0 26 ce 18 ac
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x280, using IRQ 11.
eth0: Tx timed out, excess collisions. TSR=0x1e, ISR=0x8, t=752.
>>>> cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive |
Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed
multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 0
1402 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
>>>> cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 165439 XT-PIC timer
1: 1517 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 21 XT-PIC aic7xxx
11: 0 XT-PIC NE2000
12: 0 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 56697 XT-PIC ide0
15: 6 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
>>>> cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0280-029f : NE2000
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
e400-e407 : ide0
e408-e40f : ide1
e800-e8be : aic7xxx
