Subject: Re: Ayone using Intel EtherExpress 16 ISA?
To: Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/16/1998 05:34:08
Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>  wrote:
 > I can't get the card to probe, I've tried 1.3.2, 1.3E and 1.3H. The card
 > simply never shows up. I'd expect it to probe as ie1 on 1.3.2 and ix0 on
 > later generic kernels.

"wurked fur me"

ix0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x30f iomem 0xc8000-0xcffff irq 10 address 00:aa:00:33:72:eb, type EtherExpress/16

This is under 1.3H.

 > Anyone else have this card? Did you get it to probe?

I'm using the card as a second interface on a 486/33 acting as a boot server
for a small plethora of Sharks and doing NAT on that interface.

Seems to work ok, except the driver is rather......'noisy'...

ix0: reserved 32076 bytes
ix0: 35 frames 105 bufs
ix0: reserved 32076 bytes
ix0: receiver not ready; scbstatus=0x5000
ix0: reset
ix0: 35 frames 105 bufs
ix0: reserved 32076 bytes
ix0: too many collisions
ix0: too many collisions
ix0: too many collisions