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Debian (Woody), Sony Vaio P200

I have a Kingston KNE20 NIC card in my machine and I need to install the
ne module to use it.  The ne module requires I specify the I/O
(io=0xNNN) and it might want the IRQ as well (although it might be able
to figure it out on it's own).

How do I find the I/O?  I did lspci -vvv and looked in /proc/pci and got
nothing.

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If you need to specify I/O address and IRQ to the driver, it's not a PCI
card...hence no info from lspci or /proc/pci.  

If it's a really old ISA card it might have jumpers on it for setting
IRQ and I/O address.  You can figure out what it's set for just by
looking at the jumpers and the card's manual.  If it's one of the later
ISA cards the I/O address is set via software and is harder to figure
out.  

You might be lucky and be able to get the info at boot time.  Some cards
have BIOSes which identify themselves at boot up.  During BIOS startup
(before LILO or Grub take over) you might see a message such as
"Kingston KNE20 at IRQ xx I/O yyy".  

If you don't get such messages from yours, start trying common I/O
addresses.  If the module loads successfully (i.e., prints no messages)
then you've found the right one.  Common ones to try for ISA network
cards are (IIRC) 0x240, 0x280, 0x300, 0x330, 0x340.

Of course, if this isn't an ISA card either, then none of this applies.
You'll have to tell us more about it.

It was just suggestion made previously to me from other sources.

Quote:> If it's a really old ISA card it might have jumpers on it for setting
> IRQ and I/O address.  You can figure out what it's set for just by
> looking at the jumpers and the card's manual.  If it's one of the later
> ISA cards the I/O address is set via software and is harder to figure
> out.  

No jumpers on the card.  I believe the settings are set via software and
some program called qstart which runs in MS-DOS.  Lot of good that
doesme since the machine in question does not have DOS on it.

Quote:> You might be lucky and be able to get the info at boot time.  Some cards
> have BIOSes which identify themselves at boot up.  During BIOS startup
> (before LILO or Grub take over) you might see a message such as
> "Kingston KNE20 at IRQ xx I/O yyy".  

Haven't seen any such boot messages.

Quote:> If you don't get such messages from yours, start trying common I/O
> addresses.  If the module loads successfully (i.e., prints no messages)
> then you've found the right one.  Common ones to try for ISA network
> cards are (IIRC) 0x240, 0x280, 0x300, 0x330, 0x340.

I've tried all those and more trying to "hit on it".

Quote:> Of course, if this isn't an ISA card either, then none of this applies.
> You'll have to tell us more about it.

No, it's an ISA card.  KNE20_12LC

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Then you will have to boot DOS from a floppy to run the program. Try to
find an old DOS bootable floppy somewhere.

Quote:>>  Common ones to try for ISA network cards are (IIRC) 0x240, 0x280,
>>  0x300, 0x330, 0x340.
> I've tried all those and more trying to "hit on it".

It was a long time since I used ISA cards and fortunately it was also a
long time since I used NE2000 compatible ISA cards. The NE2000 compatible
cards that I used had jumpers to select settings and when loading the
driver (at that time the driver was usually compiled into the kernel)
there was no need to give any settings as the driver found the settings
by itself. If your module now is unable to find the settings I would
guess that the card is in PnP mode. Maybe you could get it to work with
isapnp?

If you find your time valuable you should be aware that problems with buggy
NE2000 compatible cards have their own chapter in the Ethernet-HOWTO.
Maybe you would be better off with another card.

regards Henrik
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