From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.maybe.net (12-231-234-80.client.attbi.com [12.231.234.80]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BD4A4829 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:00:05 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:00:04 -0800 From: Chris Jantzen To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Ricardo Jose Guevara Ochoa , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] network card Message-ID: <20030402020004.GG31656@maybe.net> References: <36d3af5ee545d6d.e545d6d36d3af5e@unitec.edu> <20030401221616.GG29376@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030401221616.GG29376@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:16:16PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:03:38PM -0600, Ricardo Jose Guevara Ochoa wrote: > > I got a HP 9000 D-Class D270 running Debian 3.0r1 with linux version > > 2.4.17-32, and the instalation detected one of two network cards thats > > comes with the server. It detected the lan card that is integrated to > > the server, but i need to use the both cards. The one it did not > > detect is an eisa lan card, HP A4308-66001. Can someone help, o can i > > put a isa card to this server. > > I suggest you update your kernel to at least 2.4.19, and I think 2.4.20 > would be a wiser choice. IIRC we didn't support the ISA or EISA slots at > all in 2.4.17. This doesn't guarantee the card will work, but it might > do. I had a 100VG card working in a 715 when I was doing EISA initially. AFAIK EISA DMA is still unsupported, though strides have been made in the overall architecture to support non-PCI DMA in Linux more elegantly. -- chris jantzen kb7rnl =-> __O Insert witty comment here. _`\<,_ http://www.maybe.net/ (*)/ (*)