Re: DRSI cards

From: Luis Yanes (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 03:01:29 EEST

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    richard wrote:
    >
    > On Thursday 19 April 2001 19:10, Bob Nielsen wrote:
    > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:36:40PM +0100, richard wrote:
    > > > Hi , a friend has a DRSI card and is installing linux, what drivers
    > > > does this card need. Is it treated as a SCC card ?.
    > >
    > > Yes.
    >
    > Thanks to all that replied to this one.
    > I used the z8530drv.conf file exactly as the DRSI example ,but without
    > success, its on IRQ 7 base address is 0x300
    > sccinit fails to find the card & ifconfig scc0 up also fails.
    > Just rub salt in the wounds the damn thing runs under windows...yuk!
    > but AGW alsof ails to find it.
    > Any chance of a copy of z8530drv.conf on a working DRSI system.
    > This card was played with a few years ago with UKNOS , but at that time my
    > friend lost interest, now he needs to use ip .

    You could check that the configuration file z8530drv.conf haven't
    strange characters, nor <CR>'s, that can happen if you transfer it
    from a windows machine. I got mad some time when sccinit didn't found
    the card, (nor complained at all, just did nothing) when all seemed
    (and was) perfectly configurated. 

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