by Greetings,
I recently bought myself a pair of DLink DE-220T NE2000 clones at a garage
sale. After much futzing, I got the cards going with Personal Netware and
Novell DOS 7 (NWDOS) - but I had to set the irq explicitly to 15 in
NET.CFG. I then moved on to setting up Linux and ran into a problem - irq
15 is used by my EIDE card for the IDE channel that my CDROM is on and the
NE driver won't initialize properly. I hadn't noticed the problem under
NWDOS 'cos I hadn't accessed the CD-ROM with the Netware stuff loaded -
when I tried it it didn't work once the Netware stuff had run.
So my question is: how do I change the irq used by these cards ? There are
no jumpers, so I guess there's a PROM of some sort. Is there a program to
change the settings in this PROM ? I didn't get any software with the
cards (they _are_ from a garage sale, after all !) or any documentation.
I know the cards are DE-220Ts from the Ethernet address prefix as well as
from writing on the circuit board. These boards do not seem to respond to
having their irq set by the driver (either under Linux or NWDOS). Setting
a different irg at the LILO prompt does not seem to work either.
I'd really like to get networking going under Linux (it'd be nice to have
a CDROM and network at the same time under NWDOS, too), so any help would
be appreciated.
Cheers,
John
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