On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:08:19PM +1100, Del wrote:
> Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> >Computerbank has a boatload of IBM 300GL systems, including integrated
> >LAN using the Crystal Lan 8920 chipset.
> >
> >Theoretically the cs89x0.o module will utilize this, but it didn't last
> >weekend.
> >
> >Does anyone have experience with this? If you've got it working, could
> >you tell me with which distro/version, and any other suggestions you can
> >contribute?
>
> I've used them successfully with Red Hat <= 6.2 (for some reason
> the older machines that I inherited with these on the mobo wouldn't
> boot under the 2.4 kernel), and IPCop, again 2.2 kernel and earlier.
>
> They are an ISA card so you have to specify the IO port for
> them when loading the driver. From memory I did a bit of
> googling about and found a config utility for them that
> ran under DOS. They needed to be programmed with a non-
> conflicting IRQ as well.
Also, you might get lucky with the old bash loop,
for io in 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 380
do
for irq in 3 5 7 9 10 11
do
echo "Trying io=$io, irq=$irq ..."
modprobe cs89x0 io=$io irq=$irq
done
done
and then check lsmod to see if you got lucky.
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