On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Jesse Marlin wrote:
> > I'm trying to get rid of NT and 95 form 10 workstations and can't roll
> > out Redhat6.2 as NIC's dont appear to ne2000 compat.
> > Does anyone know about the kingston cards and ne2000 compatibility.
> > The card is supposed to be NE2000 compatible and it is under NT and 95,
> > however the chipset onboard when uncovered by Kingstons markup badge is
> > an RTL8019AS RMC the model of the kingston card is a KNE20T - KNE20BT.
> > Ive tried the ne module under linuxconf and the rtl8139 (as a guess)
> > but to no avail.
>
>Would it perhaps be PCI? There is a separate module for PCI NE2000 cards.
>If it is ISA then, are you setting the correct irq, and port numbers? You
>have to pass these as parameters to the module. I think NE2000 ISA cards
>have traditionally been hard for linux to scan for, so it best to know the
>irq and port. There is an explanation of the difficulty in the source code
>for that module.
NE2000 cards are hard for ANY OS to scan for. The ports reside
in common places for other hardware. With PCI however, this
isn't a problem.
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