Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both
running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working
so its worth a try!  In fact, I cant remember it ever working without
the irq option, even if the card uses "auto".  This brings up another
memory - some cards refuse to work under auto, or plugnplay setting
(planet I think in my case), I had to force a fixed IRQ with a jumper
(nominally the same as the auto seemed to be).

BillK


On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:14 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:39:09AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> > You will also need the irq (irq=5) - may have to pull the card and check
> > the jumpers, who load doze and see if it finds it if dual booted.
> > 
> > This link gives some more info:
> > http://clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISA_Network_Cards
> > 
> 
> The IRQ is not needed on the ne driver unless you have more than one ne 
> card in the machine.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:17 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > > I've got an older machine whose NIC uses the ne module. When I run
> > > generate-modprobe.conf, I get the following two lines (among others) in
> > > my modprobe.conf:
> > >
> > > alias ne off
> > > install eth0 /bin/true
> > >
> > > If I change the one line to:
> > >
> > > alias eth0 ne
> > >
> > > and add this line:
> > >
> > > options ne io=0x330
> > 
> > 
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