I got a diagnostic program for the ne2000 and found that it is at
0x300. the message below doesn't seem to tell me what the IRQ is
but the card works on the windows machine with irq set to 3 in
the device manager, so that must be it.  This diagnostic program is 
supposed to be able to program the
EEPROM also.  But I haven't had any luck with that.
   Is it possible that this card is not software programmable?

There is an empty socket on the card.  I was thinking that maybe that
is where the EEPROM would have went.


[root@bambam work]# ne2k-diag
Checking the ethercard at 0x300.
  Receive alignment error counter (0x30d) is ff
  Passed initial NE2000 probe, value 00.
Station Address PROM    0: 00 00 80 80 29 29 ea ea 8c 8c 94 94 00 00 00 00
Station Address PROM 0x10: 00 00 01 01 0d 0d 01 01 c2 c2 02 02 57 57 57 57
  NE2000 found at 0x300, using start page 0x40 and end page 0x80.
The current MAC stations address is 40:18:02:00:00:08.   

Just to make sure I understand.  The install kernel is expecting
the ne2000 card to be configured like one of these:

    Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
              ne0  0x280     9
              ne1  0x300     10

In my case, the NE2000 is 0x300  IRQ 3.  Using the kernel debugger I can tell
the kernel to expect IRQ 3 as an interupt from my ne2000 NIC and then the 
install via NFS or FTP will work OK using this NE2000 card.

  Is that right?


	Guy





--- Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 08:18:43AM -0800, Guy Santiglia wrote:
> > I guess I'm not sure what irq the board was set to.  How can I tell?
> > I have a dual boot windows/linux machine here.  If I put it in that
> > machine can I tell what irq it is using?
> 
> Yes, I think linux will be able to detect the real IRQ, if it has the
> rigth driver.
> If it's the default config it's probably on irq 5.
> The best would be to find the vendor software which can change the
> settings (usually on a floppy provided with the board, but you may find
> one on internet as well).
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
> 
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