Re: LINKSYS EtherPCI LAN Card II

Paul Gortmaker (paul@rasty.anu.edu.au)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 23:31:58 +1000 (EST)


> > >
> > > I noticed that there is not support for pci ne2000 cards in 2.0.0. Is
> > > there work being done on this? Or does anybody know how to support this
> > > card?
> >
> > There is support for PCI ne2000 cards in v2.0.x but it is limited to
> > the RealTek cards. To use Winbond or Compex PCI clones with v2.0 you
> > need to do one of the following, whichever is easiest for you.
> >
>
> On my system, the RealTek card isn't autodetected. I have PCI BIOS support
> on, but it seems that my card isn't detected by the driver.
> I have the following line added in /etc/conf.modules:
>
> options eth0 io=0xe800 irq=11
>
> Without io= statement, the ne driver does no auto-detection; If I ommit the

Ahh, you didn't say you were using modules. Autodetection with v2.0 is
only at boot. If you want aoutodetection as a module as well, get and use
the patch that I mentioned in my previous mail. Or use v2.1.x (x>=15)

Paul.