Nathan J. Williams  (nathanw@MIT.EDU) wrote:

><daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Bob Nestor) writes:
>
>> A friend recently picked up a stack of Intel EtherExpress 16 cards at a 
>> flea market intending to use them with NetBSD/i386 and Windows-98/NT.  
>> The cards are listed as supported by NetBSD and they were found to be in 
>> working condition when tested with Windows-98.  However, the NetBSD-1.3, 
>> NetBSD-1.4.1, and -current kernels never see them.  Windows identifies 
>> the cards as "Intel EtherExpress 16 or 16Pro-Tx" cards.  They come with a 
>> 10Base-T and 15-pin female connector and fit into a half-height card 
>> slot. 
>
>These should be supported by the ix or iy driver, depending on whether
>they're EE/16 or EE Pro 10 ISA. They suffer from the usual problem of
>ISA cards that if they're not at the I/O address the kernel knows
>about, they'll never be found. The GENERIC i386 kernel looks for ix at
>port 300 and iy at port 360. Check under Windows and see where the
>cards are. 
>
Thanks, we'll check it out.

>Also, the iy needs to not be in ISA Plug-n-Play mode; we don't have an
>isapnp driver for it.

I take it this is done with some program under Windows?  There aren't any 
jumpers on the board and the guy we bought them from told us to pull the 
boot ROMs if we were going to use them with a disk based OS.  
Unfortunately they didn't come with any software.

-bob