> I also have a PC with a DLink DE220 card which is supposed to be
> compatible with NE2000, and this does not work.
The ne driver is hard compiled into the kernel. Options can be passed on
the boot: line or made permanent using the append statement for lilo.
The DE220 is a plug-and-play card that can be made NE2000 compliant using
the DOS diskette included with the card (and downloadable from DLink).
Basically you have 2 choices with these types of cards:
(1) Run the isapnp utility to configure the card every time you boot,
which probably in practice also requires using pnpdump to figure
out what options to give isapnp, which means getting a libc5 copy
of the pnptools or compiling them statically, or,
(2) Boot DOS and run the setup utility from DLink to change the EPROMs
to make it a fixed-IRQ fixed-IOPORT non-PNP card. It will stay
that way.
If you can possibly get the machine into DOS, option (2) is probably the
best, of course, you are changing the non-volatile memory on the card
so it will be a non-PNP card when you boot other operating systems on it,
also. Let me know if this doesn't get it going for you.
-Tom
