Linux-Hams archive - November 1998: Re: LINUX NE

Re: LINUX NE

Uwe Schmidtmann (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 08:43:02 +0100


Hi out there,

just one more idea:

Dan wrote:
>
> If you absolutly cant get it working at all as a module, compile it into
> the kernel statically.

First of all I agree with Dan as that is the way I use my NE2000 compatible
PCI card. With SuSE LinuX 5.2 (Kernel 2.0.35) it works fine with the driver
statically within the kernel.

But now the idea: if your NE2000 uses an unusual address it might just be the
case that the probing does not check your address. There is an array defined
in the driver source code defining the addresses to be probed. Check these
address table to make sure your address is probed. I once had an old card in
my computer using address 0x220 while the driver was starting with 0x240.
When I changed one of the probing addresses to 0x220 everything worked fine
again.

Greetings,

Uwe