On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 09:29:59AM -0800, Guy Santiglia wrote:
> 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?

Well, I ran into this one time. Another program (from another manufacturer)
worked well. But all recent ne2k clones are software programmable.
The programs I used were all for DOS, from various manufacturers.

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

It's likely a place for a netboot prom.

> 
> 
> [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?

It should be possible, yes. But I don't know how ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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