[plug] Mandrake 7.1 cannot find Intel EtherExpress Pro

[Phillip Steege]

Colin,
  You were "right on the money" about my forgetting the "0x".  Thanks for
the help.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Rothnie" <colinr at tiwest.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 7:35 AM
Subject: RE: [plug] Mandrake 7.1 cannot find Intel EtherExpress Pro


> I am pretty sure you are right Gavin.  The eepro module underwent some
> changes in recent versions of the Kernel and my ISA 10 Mbit EtherExpress
Pro
> also stopped working when I upgraded to 2.2.16 (from 2.2.15 I think, the
> version of the kernel sent with Mandrake 7.1).  I don't know if this is a
> sin, but I retrieved the eepro.c file from the older kernel version into
the
> 2.2.16 kernel tree, recompiled 2.2.16 modules and the card works fine now.
>
> I should point out that my Mandrake install worked smoothly with the eepro
> card but I had to manually specify the hardware settings as irq=5
io=0x300.
> It is easy to forget the "0x" on the io address.  In Phillip's case I
think
> the correct settings should be irq=5 io=0x210.  I doubt that it needs the
> upper memory address.
>
> There is a small DOS executable you can download off the Internet if you
> need to change these settings on the card, but given that it works under
> Windows, you probably don't have any hardware conflicts.
>
> HTH
> Colin Rothnie
>
>