> A while ago a bought a DLink DE-220 ISA Network Card for my P-120.
> It worked well under Crash OS '95 however I cannot seem to get it working
> with either Caladea 2 or Red Hat 5.2. I have tried to set it up as a NE2000
> compatable however it doesn't work. I e-mailed DLink and they don't have a
> Linux driver. I have just started using linux so it is posibly just a stupid
> mistake on my part. If anyone has an idea on where to get drivers could you
(Sorry, can't mail right now.)
Anyway, the DE-220 works just fine with the ISA NE2000 driver (ne.o).
There are two gotchas, however:
- All ISA NE2000 cards *must* have the base I/O address of the
card specified as a parameter to the driver. For example, my
DE220 uses address 300. So to manually load the driver, I
would say "modprobe ne io=0x300".
To load automatically, I put "ne" in /etc/modules, and make
sure "options ne io=0x300" appears in /etc/conf.modules.
- This is where the other gotcha comes into play - you need to
have a fixed base I/O address for the card. However, recent
versions of the DE-220 are PnP cards. Fortunately, you can
disable Plug'n'Play on the card itself. DO THIS.
To do so, you need to boot into DOS (plain DOS command line,
*not* a Windows DOS box), and run the SETUP program off the
driver disk that should have come with the 220 card. (If not,
you can get it off D-Link's website.) It's a pretty easy
program to use - just turn OFF Plug'n'Play (PnP), and choose
suitable IRQ and I/O Port settings (i.e. ones that aren't
used by anything else - 10 and 2c0 are usually good choices).
Then boot back into Linux and load the ne driver as describe above.
Once the driver is loaded successfully, you can go ahead and configure
networking protocols (probably TCP/IP).
Good luck...
Alex Taylor
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