>On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:
>
>: I have an old Intel EtherExpress 16 ISA card that I've been trying to
>: use with NetBSD. This is a 16-bit ISA Ethernet adapter with AUI and BNC
>: connectors.
>:
>: 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.
>
>I have similar problems on 1.3D and earlier; I haven't tried it on recent
>-current.  I have three cards, two of which read "INTEL 8/16 LAN ADAPTER"
>and one which says "INTEL ETHEREXPRESS 16" - both cards of which are nearly
>identical electronically, down to the main control logic.  None of these
>probe.
>
>There's probably something in the detection code that is missing out on
>these (I hazard a guess that at least the "8/16" adapters are much older
>than the ones ix0 recognizes).


 good luck guy, i have one of those too, but i couldn't get it to go, reason
being i couldn't get softset to configure the board, so i had to install a
newer ethernet adapter (delta i think).  if you can get it to run let me
know i had a whore of a time getting it to go.

-Shawn.