On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:09:13 +0100 Praise <praisetazio@tiscalinet.it> wrote:

Hi all,

By chance I have found out I got such an old NIC on an old PC. I would like to use the PC with Linux, but I have also seen that RTL-8019 is not known to work. Anyone has had success with this kind of NIC?

Is that the old isa version? Yeah, I had one working under linux. The deal is first to do an pnpdump and get it setup so there is no irq conflicts. There is a very obscure setting that must be GUESSED correctly. It was something like "highregister range". If it don't work, go back and switch that to the other option. Then it uses the "NE2000 compatible - other" driver. It dosn't use the NE2000 for pci cards, it's listed separately in the kernel source drivers. Considering how cheap 8029 pci cards are, it is probably a waste of time to try and set it up. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}

On 2002-02-20 18:09:13 +0100 Praise <praisetazio@tiscalinet.it> wrote:

I have also seen that RTL-8019 is not known to work. Anyone has had success with this kind of NIC? raise

It will work as long as you know the io address and the irq of the card or have the software that comes with the card to set it. If you don't have the software you might have to change things in your system to prevent io and irq conflict. Once you got that straighten out, you should alias the network interface to the ne module and set the options. This is done in modules.conf. i.e.: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x280 irq 11 I hope this will help you. Charles -- The box saids Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux