[LUAU] PCI NE2000 card

David and Max Buddy at Mail-me.com
Sun Dec 13 12:59:57 PST 1998


>> I just got a new system that has a NE2000 PCI network card.  Linux boots
>> fine and the /proc/pci database shows that the card is there and has an
>> iobase of 0xec00 and irq 12.  I tried to install the ne2k-pci.o module
>> (from Debian 2.0) and I get an error message about device or resource is
>> busy.
>> On each try, I get an error about the parameter [io|iobase|ioport] not
>> found.  Anybody use a NE2000 (LinkSys) PCI card, or any PCI network card
>> at all?  Do I use the isapnp tool?  Anyone know how I can change the IRQ
>> and IObase?

I'm using LinkSys's ISA NIC.....I don't have any problem changing the IRQ
and I/O ports.  All I do is to use the driver disk that comes with the NIC
and run the setup program under DOS to change I/O, IRQ, and stuff like that
'softwarely' (kind of like programming the EPROM on the NIC or something,
not sure).  Then Linux can detect the NIC's setting automatically.  Of
course if you're like me who has two NICs on the box, you've got to edit
conf.modules also.  All of the stuff I mentioned here is for ISA Linksys,
not PCI.  Anyway, hope that could help a bit.

-Max




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