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From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
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Subject: Re: Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card
Date: 21 Sep 1994 16:16:41 -0400
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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In article <5WeiNGNTpsB@higgins.delbox.zer.de>,  <HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE> wrote:
>Frank Westheider         Linux Support Group Paderborn
>I'm looking for infos on the ReadLINK ENET16/U Rev. C Ethernet-Card.
>This card can be jumpered for WD80x3 and NEx000 mode and has a lot of
>jumpers on board :
...
>Whatever setting i choose (WD oder NE), whatever IRQ/IO i choose, the card  
>is recognized but
>
>  - in NE-Mode the card hangs together with HD-Access  CRASH

This is likely a I/O address conflict.  What kind of disk controller are you
using?  What address are the cards jumpered to?  Remember that the NE2000
takes 32 I/O locations.

>  - in WD-Mode, all works fine, but the cards (2 of this kind) don't
>    recognize one another on the NET

Are there any Tx or Rx errors reported in /proc/net/dev?  What about error
messages logged in /usr/adm/messages?

-- 
Donald Becker					  becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
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