Re: IO

Ray Olszewski
2004-01-03T06:18:39Z

At 05:39 PM 1/2/2004 -0600, Jose Colmenares wrote:
> Found isapnptools.
>did pnpdump, but don't understand what is says! I
>cannot copy isapnp.conf.sample here because my floppy
>broke down (just to add more fun) and or course don't
>have internet on my slack box.
>
>It does say something like: minimum IO base adress
>0x0280, maximun IO base adress 0x03e0. Tried both on
>modprobe, none worked (when I see the syslog no card
>was found with such an adress).

Sorry but, as the saying goes, close only counts with hand granades and
horseshoes ... not error messages and config files. You aren't likely to
get help with interpreting this output until we can see it, not "something
like" it. But see below.

>¿how do i know how to edit isapnp.conf.... ?
>
>Also, on dmesg, it says:
>isapnp: Card 'Genius LAN GE2000III Series Card'
>isapnp: 1 plug & play card detected total.
>
>Also, i wrote down the following before formatting
>windows. It was using this:
>
>Raltek rtl8019 or compatible
> i/o interval 02c0-02df
> Memory interval 000DC000-000DFFFF
>and was using a NE2000.sys file for the device

OK. One possibility, then, is to believe what Windows tells you about the
card and see if it works under Linux. That is, what happens if you run the
command

modprobe ne io=0x2c0

(as I recall, ne can autoprobe for the irq but not the io value)?

Do you get a failure message from the module? If you do not, does "ifconfig
-a" then show an eth0 interface present? If it does, what IRQ does it
report? And can you now assign it an IP address (maybe with "ifup eth0", if
Slackware uses the ifup/ifdown commands that are pretty standard on other
Linux distros)?