On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, manuel lopez wrote about, Network card installation problem:
> Hi all , I,m using
> Red Hat Linux release 4.1 (Vanderbilt)
> Kernel 2.0.27 on an i386
> in this Clone 386 8 mbytes 100Mb hard disk , and I have one PNP ISA
> network card with chip RTL8029R and after reading howtos and other
> documents I,m unable to start working in a home network project.
>
> This card works fine in other pentium mother boards simply telling
> during installation io= 0280-029F irq=11 and ne2000 compatible.
To get round this problem you have a couple of options,
1)
Place the card in a DOS or Windows machine and run its software setting
program, i have no idea what it is called, there will be one for it
somewhere.
2)
Use ispPnP tools under linux to try and change the software settings.
IRQ's 2 5 7 could be used or even 3 and 4 if you dont use comm ports for
anything.
After setting the card to a singel digit irq then the module command would
be;
modprobe ne io=0x280
There should be no need to tell modprobe about the IRQ but it is a modprobe
option.
> Trying this in this old 386 , is impossible to configure.
>
> I have no information about jumpers or operator manual of that
> 386 mother board.
> Can somebody suggesting me some procedures.
> Thanks in advance
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Regards Richard
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