Comment PnP you say? (Score 1) 22
I don't have one of these cards (thank God) so I may be grossly misinformed here.
You say it's a plug-and-pray card. It doesn't matter that your machine does not have a plug-and-play bios. That's okay. What you need to remember is that (unless the card has some FLASH ROM for the settings, which I doubt) the card DOES NOT RETAIN SETTINGS between reboots, may they be warm or cold. Essentially, it has no idea what IRQ, IO, DMA?, etc it's supposed to be using.
First of all, install isapnptools. Read the docs provided on how to set up your card.
Next, recompile your kernel with the card modular. Install and reboot. Ignore evil messages about the netcard.
Then, try running isapnp, then insmod'ing the netcard. The best way to see if it worked is to kill syslogd and klogd, then run a tail -f /proc/kmesg and watch for error messages.
You say it's a plug-and-pray card. It doesn't matter that your machine does not have a plug-and-play bios. That's okay. What you need to remember is that (unless the card has some FLASH ROM for the settings, which I doubt) the card DOES NOT RETAIN SETTINGS between reboots, may they be warm or cold. Essentially, it has no idea what IRQ, IO, DMA?, etc it's supposed to be using.
First of all, install isapnptools. Read the docs provided on how to set up your card.
Next, recompile your kernel with the card modular. Install and reboot. Ignore evil messages about the netcard.
Then, try running isapnp, then insmod'ing the netcard. The best way to see if it worked is to kill syslogd and klogd, then run a tail -f
