[plug] Mandrake 7.1 cannot find Intel EtherExpress Pro

[Phillip Steege]

Thanks to all for the help with the EtherExpress on Mandrake 7.1.
The solution was my failure to enter the I/O as 0x210 and not just 0210.
PLUG saves the day again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Nicholls" <jason at mindsocket.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Mandrake 7.1 cannot find Intel EtherExpress Pro


> Hiya,
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:57:25PM +0800, Phillip Steege wrote:
> > I have an ISA Intel EtherExpress Pro (10mb) card that worked fine under
Windoze 98.
> > The Intel card was an option during the install, but Mandrake could not
find it automatically.  I tried entering the same settings that worked under
Windoze (for example:  IRQ 05, IO 210-21F, MEM 000CC000-000CFFFF) but it did
not detect it that way either.
>
> maybe it's ISA plug and play, ie: the configuration is handled by
software.
> Sometimes you can configure these devices via a supplied config program
> (probably DOS based). Other times you may be able to use a BIOS switch
that
> will configure the pnp device before the OS is booted. Or even use the ISA
PnP
> stuff that comes with linux, but that's probably the more difficult
option.
>
>
> Later,
>
> Jason Nicholls
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