configuring the network after debian install.

[Kerry Hoath]

Be aware if you specify an io and irq to the ne driver;
it will assume that there is a card there regardless of whether one is activated
at this address.
Also if an irq is allocated to a isa card and not reserved in bios and
a pci device has it; often Linux will never see the
interrupt for the  network card.
Unless the machine has no spare PCI slots or none at all;
there is no reason to avoid pci cards; they just
work and require no mucking with isapnp.
that said; most ne2000 clones can be hard set to addresses and irqs
which aleviates the need to do it with isapnp.
There are utilities to do this under Linux for the common chips; use
the dos utils f or any others.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:00:22PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> It sounds like your card may require some sort of initialization from DOS
> or Windows.  I've never encountered this, but I've heard of several cards
> claiming to be compatible with a popular brand only working after one
> boots into DOS or Windows and then uses Loadlin from there to start Linux.
> I hope this isn't the case, but it sounds like the card you are trying to
> get working isn't quite as compatible as it claims if ISAPNP can't even
> find it.
> 
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