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Re: As 2.0 looms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Apr 28 23:19:04 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 18:34:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9604271138.AA00435@rsphy6.anu.edu.au>
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On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > 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.
I've got some lance cards (EXOS 105's actually), and have had mixed
results with them. In some systems, they work fine with the appropriate
ether= append line, but in others, they fail to find the IRQ and do funny
things like take IRQ 32 or 64. I've actually not gotten them to work in
anything other than 386dx's. I've failed in 486's and Pentiums.
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