> At 11:21 AM 2/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Is there any special configuration needed to use the EISA bus of a system ?
> >kernel is 2.0.28, and I seem to be unable to access a network card (DEC
> >425) on the EISA bus of a Digital Prioris HS 590...
> >Of course, I could have done something wrong with the System
> >Configuration Utility, since it's horribly documented, but I'd like to
> >search all the avenues at the same time...
> >
>
> I'd try rerunning your EISA configuration utility.
> Is the DEC 425 an EISA card ? If so, you definitely want to make sure that
> the configuration utility sees the card in the slot you placed it in.
I did and finally found how to activate the card. Now Linux detects the
card ( if compiled in, not if I'm using a module), and I'm able to ping
back and forth. But I'm not able to do TCP not UDP... Weird.
Christophe Dupre Universite de Montreal
Montreal, Qc, Canada
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