Old ISA nic, HELP

[Fryguy8]

Well I put some random ISA nic in my new (old?) server comp. And then I installed debian. And tried to make it work, unsuccessfully.

I was screwing around with bsd before, and it was telling me 0x280 for the io port, and the irq was 10. These settings aren't working in linux (nor did they work in freebsd really). So I'm looking for ideas. It's a jumperless ISA nic, labeled ne2000+ both on the package (manilla envelope, my dad got it a couple years back), and on a sticker on the card. The main chip says "Delta" on it, and that's all I know. googling has been pretty fruitless, and I'm out of ideas. The comp does have PCI slots, so if worse comes to worse I can just go out and buy a PCI NIC, but I don't want to spend $$ if I don't have to (got everything for free so far, and got lucky on the server being upgraded from 8mb to 24 at some point by the company I got it from)

Anybody here using ISA nics with any suggestions I'd appreciate it.

[JohnT]

You'll more than likely need to re-configure your kernel.
(need pdf reader) http://www.resnet.mtu.edu/download/linux/linuxnic.pdf

[Fryguy8]

I'm not even at kernel compile yet, I'm just trying to get debian netinst working

it's weird because I look up the model number on the chip, and come up with one thing, but the FCC ID doesn't match, and if I look up the FCC ID I get a totally different card.

Delta DPS05U09D
FCC ID KA2APC260P0

[0utlaw]

yeah, the ne2000 isa cards are pretty weird.

you might wanna try this out:

modprobe ne io=0x280

i have an AT2000 (ne 2000 clone) and i had to set it to jumperless in the bios and then probe for it by passing the io address

[Fryguy8]

After poking around on those FCC IDs, I found a dos setup.exe that worked, and the port was 0x300. Works great now.