On 2 Feb 00 at 12:12, Jonathan Freed wrote:
> I have the very same card in my gateway. What you need to do my friend is
> disable plug and play on the card.
>
> To do this :
> 1. find the disk that came with your NIC.
> 2. stick a Dos or WIN bootdisk in your gateway and boot off it.
> 2. put the NIC disk in. (duh i know)
> 4. CD to the UTLITIES dir.
> 5. run SETUP (or DIAG works too).
> 6. disable plug and play.
> 7. set the settings and save it to the EPROM by pressing F10 (i think).
> 8. reboot and setup your router to match the new settings.
>
> hope that helps... if not
> check your BIOS and make sure you disable Plug and Play there. I had to do
> that to let Linux load up on one of my computers...
Thanks... But I can't see any way in the DIAG program that will
disable P&P on the NIC. I also can't find a way to disable P&P in
the Compaq setup program. There is a window where the Compaq setup
program tells me a few options for BIO and IRQ for the NIC, but I
can't change it to a more "normal" 0x300 for example, it insists on
0x1000 or 0x7000 - 0x7F00.
Interestingly, the RedHat Linux (5.1 I think) hard drive I had laying
around boots right up on that machine, even though the hardware
configuration is quite different than the 486 I had it in. Of
course, it doesn't recognise eth0 either.
During the STN boot, I get a couple messages I wasn't expecting:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
SIOCADDRT: No such device
Any ideas what these mean?
Just for kicks, I just re-installed an Intel EtherExpress 16 card
I've got, configured it for IRQ 10, BIO 0x300, reburned by STN
diskette with an Intel EtherExpress driver, and it seems to be
working fine. Only problem is, I only have 10-base-2 (or whatever a
coax connector is) and AUI connectors on the back of the card, so I
have to hang an AUI to RJ-45 adaptor on the back to make it talk to
the rest of my network. A bit of a pain, but not the end of the
world.
Mike Jesch
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