>
> 1. if you have any jumpers on the board, read all the board maybe you find
> a table with the jumpers

Unfortunately there are no jumpers.
>
> 2. look at the biggest chip on the board and do internet searches with
> substrings of the chip code. Chances are, you will find a DOS program for
> setting up the IO and IRQ

Do I really want to use a dos utility? This is of coarse related to the 
thread of linux and kids software, because the win machine is only for my  
kids. So the only reason I am trying to deal with monkeysoft if for kids 
games. 

> 2.1 alternatively try to insmod ne2k specifying ports between 0x280 and
> 0x360
I think I was using variations of IO=  I/O= i/o i/o=  and with ranges of 
0x300 and irq's like 2 9 and 5. I was getting frustrated so maybe I just need 
to use the correct syntax and thats that. I have a feeling that it is an 
obvious problem that I am overlooking.
>
> 3. run pnpdump from isapnp package and see what it discovers. then enable
> PNP and ISAPNP in kernel (if you use 2.4)

I did install the isapnp package but have yet to use it.
If it was only a sound card I could work on it from work. Now you guys are 
contributing to me skipping work to go home and get this nic up.
Thanks;  really.


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