[ale] Time to go ISA NIC Hunting

[Mike Millson]

I have a 3Com EtherLink III in its original box w/ instruction manual
and driver diskette that you can have for free if you want to pick it
up. I live in the Tucker/Northlake area. I will be here today. Let me
know if interested, and I will send directions.

Mike

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 02:37, BruceG wrote:
> Decided to put together an old box to work as a print server. Happily 
> installed Debian Woody. No X, no window manager, just a plain text machine. 
> Selected print server from tasksel and configured away. Also added parport 
> and ethernet support.
> 
> The person I got the box from thought it had a Linksys Ether16 Combo card in 
> it. No amount of hacking got the card to work, although it did seem to want 
> to be a ne2000 clone. I finally was able to do a modprobe ne io=0x240, 
> irq=10. The card installed and ifconfig shows eth0. I configured ip address, 
> gateway, subnet mask, dns servers, made sure it was up.
> 
> 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 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.
> 
> 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.
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