Re: IO

[pa3gcu <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>]

On Monday 05 January 2004 05:31, Jose Colmenares wrote:
>  I'm writing this for the archive.
> Found another card (similar to the one i had, but this
> one works): rtl8029.

It looks to me if you dont understand the differance from ISA and PCI ethernet 
cards.

> To use a rtl8019 on linux you
> have to set it in jumpless mode. Well, i believed you
> did that with a software, so i looked all over, and
> found some commands on DOS but where not recognize by
> winXP. But when i took it off to install the other, it
> had jumpers on it.

Correct thats ISA for you.

> Next time, find all the hardware specifications! i
> didn't have them because i was using a computer wich
> had belonged to someone else and had lost practically
> every manual. The rtl8019 sometimes is setup in
> extrange io's by windows (i believe someone said
> something like that on the list). In order for it to
> work on linux you must set it in jumpless mode. So,
> there was no way i was going to get it done!

Well i can assure you they do work.

>
> Thanks everyone for the support. Hopefully, sometime
> i'll be answering this questions! :)
>

I hope that before you do go answering things like the above that you firstly 
know where you went wrong yourself.

-- 
If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they
try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community
is built on organized crime.

Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/



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