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Re: As 2.0 looms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Gortmaker)
Sat Apr 27 17:37:26 1996
From: Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy6.anu.edu.au>
To: Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de (Martin Kraemer)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 21:38:21 +1000 (EST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604260947.AA02042@deejai.mch.sni.de> from "Martin Kraemer" at Apr 26, 96 11:47:18 am
>
> On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
> > A lot of the other cards listed as "alpha" are there simply due to
> > the fact that they are relatively uncommon, and thus feedback is low
> > to nonexistent. Not sure what you want to do about those...
>
> I have had problems using the LANCE driver on my (supposedly LANCE
> compatible) EXOS-105 card ever since. This driver isn't called alpha
> either if I recall it correctly. No, after it has started it runs
> perfectly fine. But the IRQ autoprobing never worked. I hacked it to use
> a predefined IRQ and DMA and had no problems since then. I just wonder if
> I'm the only person who experiences problems with this driver...
No, the lance driver has had problems with auto-irq of genuine Novell
NE2100 (and NE1500) cards for a long time. You don't need to "hack" the
driver to use your IRQ -- you can just specify it at boot with an ether=
command line.
Paul.
