ne2k and 0x378 lp ports

elijah wright (elw@stderr.org)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:51:57 -0500 (CDT)


> > Classic mistake. Bet you have a printer port at 0x378 8)
>
>Probably, although it's not used. How come earlier kernels probed the
>card fine though, with no difference in the hardware settings?
>
>I can also add that if I specify "ether=9,0x360,eth0" to LILO then the
>card is detected fine, and works fine.

doesn't matter. the ne2k takes a 20-unit window... it runs from 0x360 to
0x380 in this case.

you have a memaddress conflict, plain and simple. this used to happen to
me in the 386 days :)

elijah

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