just an observation, for a linux user who always takes the chance to blow
windows away, you sure were dependent on windows for checking the settings
of your peripherals.
anyway, you're not supposed to check windows for the settings of your
peripherals since windows IS a PNP OS, and does it's own assignments and
re-assignments. that DOS-based config tool should have been sufficient to
tell you which IO and IRQ your NIC used. it usually helps to do a "reset
config settings" in the bios just after you did this just so that the PCI
devices get re-aligned if ever your isa card stepped on something in the PCI
bus.
one more thing, i've a question. do you turn on "PNP OS" in the bios when
you use PNP for linux? windows requires this most of the time to work
properly with PNP cards.
vince.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Federico Sevilla III
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 4:02 PM
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Subject: RE: [plug] Network Card
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 at 15:27, Ronneil Camara wrote:
>I would suggest you turn of pnp and set specific IRQ and IO base address.
I am in no way attempting to mock anyone. I am providing this experiential
information for the benefit of everybody. No pun intended, flames to
/dev/null. Until a few weeks ago, I never had to deal with ISA NICs in
Linux. I've always used PCI NICs before. During my experiments with that
486 with an ISA NIC, I started taking note that the Linux PNP tools were
"not that great", so I took note of the IRQ and IO base address used by
Windows previously on the same machine, then set the NIC to not use PNP,
and told it to use the IRQ and IO base address previously set. All
attempts to work like this failed.
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