On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:48:40PM -0500, spencer underground wrote: > > > > > 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. It's not that you like it or not: if the manufacturer provided [only] a dos configuration utility and you want to configure the darn board... what gives? > > 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. Don't bother with the IRQ. once you get hte I/O straight, it will automagically get the IRQ. > > 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. Run pnpdump and look at the output... florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4