Deja Vu all over again

[Rafe Magnuson]

ISA cards don't autoprobe? Is that why perhaps the 'pnpdump' command
doesn't list my old soundblaster-isa card?

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---- frankb at efball.com (E Frank Ball) wrote:
>  
> } I have now got a bigger PC.  It is an AMD k6 (400 mhz) with
> } a 40 gig drive and I have loaded Red Hat 7.0 in it.  It came
> } with an ISA (ne2000) NIC that I could not get to work under
> } linux (it did work with Windows, though)  I bought another
> } NIC (ne2000), and can get it identified as "eth0" by Linux.
> } When connected to the router, I cannot get it to ping either
> } macintosh, or the router ;  that is 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2
> } or 192.168.1.4 although it will ping 127.0.0.1 but I
> } understand that is no big feat since that is the internal
> } address of a local loop.
> 
> ISA cards do not autoprobe.  You must specify the address.
> Two ways to do this:  
> 
> Include the address when you load the kernel module (good for
> experimenting):
> 
> /sbin/modprobe ne io=0x300
> 
> or put it in /etc/modules.conf :
> 
> alias eth0 ne
> options eth0 io=0x320
> 
> This is the permanent solution.
> The IRQ can be specfied, but it is not necessary.
> 
> What is in /etc/modules.conf ?
> 
> What happens when you load the module with modprobe?
> 
> What is the output of "/sbin/lsmod" ?
> 
> What is in /proc/interrupts ?
> 
> 
> } I have fooled around with the PC BIOS to try to understand
> } the IRQ settings for Plug and Play, but am getting nowhere.
> 
> ISA cards don't plug and play very well.
> 
> 
> 
>    E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com
> 

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