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Re: Jumperless generic modem cards configure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Mon Jul 15 11:59:22 1996
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:12:26 +0100 (BST)
From: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
To: Abeeku Mwamba Paulos <abeeku@cldc.howard.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960713154549.7545A-100000@genolan.cldc.howard.edu>
On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Abeeku Mwamba Paulos wrote:
> Has anyone yet begun a project that identifies make & model of network
> adapter (or interface, if you prefer) cards and configures them for I/O
> address and IRQ without rebooting into dreaded BS-DOS
No. This is too hard, in general, to be worthwhile.
Firstly, there are a *lot* of incompatible ways of configuring these
things. Secondly, there isn't necessarily any reliable way to detect
which kind of card you have, even if you could configure it then.
Thirdly, specifications aren't necessarily available.
There is a program on Donald Becker's ftp site that can reconfigure
NE2000 clones based on the AT/LANTIC chip (which is quite a lot of
them). Other that that you're mostly on your own.
Rebooting into DOS isn't that great a hardship in any case.
P.
