Re: Trouble with ethernet card

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Subject: Re: Trouble with ethernet card
> > alias eth0 ne
> > alias eth1 ne
> > options eth0 -o ne-0 io=0x240 irq=11
> > options eth1 -o ne-1 io=0x300 irq=9
> I have one Linux box (used as a router) that has 3 NIC's.
> I had to try a lot of combinations of different NIC's with
> different chipsets to find three that would work together.
> They are all PCI PnP cards (2 running 100BT).  My conf.modules:

I scrounged around on the internet and found that sometime an NE2000 positioned
as 0x300 will conflict in the top end of it's I/O mapping with VGA adapters on
ISA machines.  So I moved it to 0x340 (and IRQ 11 just to make sure) and it
fired right up.  So now I'm hooked to the internet via a nice 128k digital
circuit,  sure beats that 33.6 dial-up.  This machine is an IBM Value Point,
 just in case anybody's got one you can avoid this.  I've use about a hundred
NE2000 cards at 0x300 (irq 9) in machines with PCI video cards and have never
had a problem.