[ale] Time to go ISA NIC Hunting

[Adrin]

Wow
This one is even better http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:49 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Time to go ISA NIC Hunting
> 
> 
> BruceG wrote:
> > Decided to put together an old box to work as a print server.
> <snip>
> > 
> > Can't ping the gateway. Can't ping any other boxes. Can ping my
> > loopback address and my ethernet address. Can't ping it from other
> > hosts. So - checked the mac address of the nic and looked it up. It's
> > an Accton. Don't know the model.
> 
> I had no idea you could do that, where did you look it up?
> 
> > 
> > I DO know that it is not ISAPnP. Did a pnpdump, and got no hits. Did
> > /cat/proc pci - no good. So it's an ISA card, not PCI. And NOT plug
> > and pray. Doing a cat /proc/interrupts shows it using IRQ 10 with no
> > conflicts. lsmod shows the card as well.
> 
> Check the cable?  Could be the card is just bad.  I've got one box that 
> has an integrated card.  Seems every OS I put on it, sees it, but it 
> just doesnt' work.  I've given it up for bad.
> 
> > Anyone know anyplace to get a CHEAP ISA Ethernet card? I'd like to
> > put together a print server, and move the shared printer off my
> > desktop.
> 
> You'll likely need to head to a used shop, as I've not seen any for sale 
> in a while.  Does it have to be 100 or is 10 sufficient?  The reason I 
> ask is, I've got a handful of isa nics I'd let you have one if you'd 
> like.  I'd give you 4-5 as I've not tested them and you can keep a 
> couple if you can get them to work.  Let me know if you're interested.
> 
> I know that in the past, I've seen some ISA cards that could only be 
> configured by a dos program.  Point is, if the card is configured for 
> one irq and you try using a different one, it's not going to work.
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net
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