Very Computer

by **Lester Hightow** » Tue, 04 Jul 1995 04:00:00

I have an Intel Ether Express ISA card. The card is on IRQ 11 and at
base address 220. I can't really move it around 'cause I've got lots
of other cards in the machine using IRQs. The card works fine if I boot
my machine into DOS/Windoze 3.11; but Linux does not recognize the card
when it boots. I have tried 1.1.59, 1.2.6, and 1.3.6 compiling support
for the Ether Express into all three -- none of them see the card.

Anybody got this card working in Linux. If so how and with what kernel,
base address, and IRQ.

Thanks much for any and all help,
Lester Hightower (http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~hightowe)
System Software Developer
Wide Area Networked Environment Project (http://www-wane.scri.fsu.edu)
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute (http://www.scri.fsu.edu)

by **Paul Gortmak** » Tue, 04 Jul 1995 04:00:00

>I have an Intel Ether Express ISA card. The card is on IRQ 11 and at
>base address 220. I can't really move it around 'cause I've got lots
>of other cards in the machine using IRQs. The card works fine if I boot
>my machine into DOS/Windoze 3.11; but Linux does not recognize the card
>when it boots. I have tried 1.1.59, 1.2.6, and 1.3.6 compiling support
>for the Ether Express into all three -- none of them see the card.

That is because 0x220 is not one of the probed addresses. You can either
add 0x220 to the list of probed addresses, (which will involve a recompile)
or just tell the driver the details of the card via a boot prompt to
the kernel. If using LILO, this is as simple as:

LILO: linux ether=11,0x220,eth0

Paul.

Very Computer

Anybody know how to make Intel Ether Express work?

Anybody know how to make Intel Ether Express work?

Anybody know how to make Intel Ether Express work?