From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pa3gcu Subject: Re: IO Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:10:28 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200401051610.28109.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> References: <20040105043108.87265.qmail@web61102.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040105043108.87265.qmail@web61102.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jose Colmenares , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs