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Re: Network Card.



On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Igal Rubinstein wrote:

> >> I bought a Network Card. It is called EtherFast LAN Adapter, and in the
> >> bottom of the box is written Micronet. It must be NE2000 Compatible.
[snip]
> >Stop. Go back to the beginning. Boot with a DOS system diskette 
and use
> >the diskette you got with the network card to set up the card. Make sure
> >it is not in PNP (Plug and Play) mode. The setup diskette should allow
> >you to set the IRQ and IO addresses using a menu. Use the first
> >selections on
> 
> I can can NOT change it. The address changes, only when I plug my card
> into different slot. I can only play with enabling/disabling half duplex
> and so on, but I doesn't help my problem.
> 
[snip]
> >Is this the first Linux installation on this machine? What Linux
> are you >using? Did the machine work with a different ethernet card? 
> 
> >The "Aiee" messages might be a RAM timing problem unrelated to the
> 
> No, I have been using U*nix clnes - FreeBSD / Linux for alsmost ten
> month. And NEVER had I seen "Aiee" message.
[snip]
> P.S on the box is written NE2000 software compatible. Might it be that it is
> NOT NE2000 Hardware compatible ?

Excuse me for my last post, I should have realized from the IO addresses
you gave that this is a PCI card. In fact, I have just searched USENET 
for "Micronet Linux", "EtherFast Linux", etc. It seems that this card is 
not supported.

 - yba

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