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by **Nathan Pool** » Thu, 18 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Hi there,

I have a couple of NE2K clones sitting around, but have in my immense
stupidity lost the particular setup disks... This is fine for my linux box,
because it doesn't give a rat's (I.E. I would have had THREE old cards
w/out setup disks *grin*), but windows can't just find out IRQ for itself
etc, and I don't have a use for 3 cards in my linux box...

Is there a generic routine someone has written for most cards to get at
this? (It's 3am, setting up an NT server :-) )

Cheers,

Nathan.

(Please remove #nospam# from my return address, reply by mail as well as to
group :-) )

by **Frank Sweetse** » Thu, 18 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> Hi there,

> I have a couple of NE2K clones sitting around, but have in my immense
> stupidity lost the particular setup disks... This is fine for my linux box,
> because it doesn't give a rat's (I.E. I would have had THREE old cards
> w/out setup disks *grin*), but windows can't just find out IRQ for itself
> etc, and I don't have a use for 3 cards in my linux box...

> Is there a generic routine someone has written for most cards to get at
> this? (It's 3am, setting up an NT server :-) )

'cat /proc/interrupts' and 'cat /proc/ioports' should tell you the
interrupt and io settings the card (and everything else on your system) is
set to.

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by **Natha** » Fri, 19 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Hi there, you're right, that is what I asked *sorry*

What I meant was to be able to set the IRQ etc using this generic routine,
so that when using one of the cards under windows, I don't have to go
change everything else to suit the card's IRQ etc.

Thanks for the quick response,

Nathan.

> > Hi there,

> > I have a couple of NE2K clones sitting around, but have in my immense
> > stupidity lost the particular setup disks... This is fine for my linux
box,
> > because it doesn't give a rat's (I.E. I would have had THREE old cards
> > w/out setup disks *grin*), but windows can't just find out IRQ for
itself
> > etc, and I don't have a use for 3 cards in my linux box...

> > Is there a generic routine someone has written for most cards to get at
> > this? (It's 3am, setting up an NT server :-) )

> 'cat /proc/interrupts' and 'cat /proc/ioports' should tell you the
> interrupt and io settings the card (and everything else on your system)
is
> set to.

> --
> Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key
available
> paramount.res.wpi.net RedHat Linux 2.0.31pre9 i486 | at public
servers
> Woody: What's happening, Mr. Peterson?
> Norm: The question is, Woody, why is it happening to me?
> -- Cheers, Strange Bedfellows, Part 1

by **Tony Langd** » Fri, 19 Sep 1997 04:00:00

It's 18 Sep 97 15:06:36,

discussion of NE2K Clones

#n> I have a couple of NE2K clones sitting around, but have in my immense
#n> stupidity lost the particular setup disks... This is fine for my linux
#n> box, because it doesn't give a rat's (I.E. I would have had THREE old
#n> cards w/out setup disks *grin*), but windows can't just find out IRQ
#n> for itself etc, and I don't have a use for 3 cards in my linux box...

#n> Is there a generic routine someone has written for most cards to get
#n> at this? (It's 3am, setting up an NT server :-) )

Hmm, many of the clone cards use the same chips (RTL8009, RTL8019, etc).
If you have disks for other clones, try using them. :-)

... 2 B or not 2 B, that is the pencil....
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by **Nathan Poo** » Wed, 24 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Did that, brought a mate's disks from his cards over... No luck.

?

>It's 18 Sep 97 15:06:36,

>discussion of NE2K Clones

> #n> I have a couple of NE2K clones sitting around, but have in my immense
> #n> stupidity lost the particular setup disks... This is fine for my linux
> #n> box, because it doesn't give a rat's (I.E. I would have had THREE old
> #n> cards w/out setup disks *grin*), but windows can't just find out IRQ
> #n> for itself etc, and I don't have a use for 3 cards in my linux box...

> #n> Is there a generic routine someone has written for most cards to get
> #n> at this? (It's 3am, setting up an NT server :-) )

>Hmm, many of the clone cards use the same chips (RTL8009, RTL8019, etc).
>If you have disks for other clones, try using them. :-)

>... 2 B or not 2 B, that is the pencil....
>--
>|Fidonet: Tony Langdon 3:632/367.2

>|
>| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.