I have three of the "INTEL 8/16 LAN ADAPTER"
aka "Intel EtherExpress 16."  working with 1.5_ALPHA

Do not run sysinst with the card installed! (Messy console.)

http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm
(Search for Intel cards here.)

White bar code label:308646-xxx
eg.
308646-xxx EtherExpress 16 ISA (TP,BNC,AUI) PCLA8105 Flash
309146-xxx


http://support.intel.com/support/etherexpress/SOFT.HTM
Get soft.exe and extract.
Use softset2.exe to config the card.

IO 300h
IRQ 10
CONNECTOR TYPE Auto-detect  (must use auto. Why? I don't know)
MAP 32KB RAM
IOMEM d000h or d800h
save and reboot.
Run diagnostic again: the internal tests must succeed.

If the diagnostic fails on 82586 
  (IRQ conflict in BIOS assign IRQ 10 to ISA/EISA not PCI/PnP)

If the diagnostic fails on DRAM 
  (Disable ROM d000h,d400h or d800h,dc00h in BIOS)


 1.5_ALPHA: dmesg

ix0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x30f iomem 0xd0000-0xd7fff irq 10 \
    address 00:aa:00:5f:6e:43, type EtherExpress/16
ix1 at isa0 port 0x310-0x31f iomem 0xd8000-0xdffff irq 11 \
    address 00:aa:00:53:7a:10, type EtherExpress/16


leopard$ grep ^ix /conf/LEOPARD
ix0     at isa? port 0x300 irq 10               # EtherExpress/16
ix1     at isa? port 0x310 irq 11               # EtherExpress/16

                 
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 5:25 PM, Todd Vierling <mailto:tv@wasabisystems.com>
wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>
>: I've enabled the ix driver in the config file (1.4.2)
>: and recompile but the probe still doesn't detect my
>: NIC.  I have set the port and IRQ to the port and IRQ
>: the card as set at so I'm not sure what gives.  Does
>: the EtherExpress driver require use of the default
>: port / irq assignments?
>
>Does your card say, in white lettering on the card, "INTEL 8/16 LAN
ADAPTER"
>or "INTEL ETHEREXPRESS 16 LAN ADAPTER"?  The former I've _never_ been able
>to get to work.  However, you can try the following:
>
>Make sure the softset sets up a _32k_ mapped memory segment.  If possible,
>put it at D0000.  That is one thing I had to do to get a real EE16
working.
>





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