Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:14:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jacques Gelinas <> | Subject | Re: NE2000 Module Problem |
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On 9 Sep 1996, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> Andrew E. Mileski (aem@aem.ott.hookup.net) wrote: > > : After doing some head banging I realize the problem: the NE2000 driver > : is dumb-as-a-post when it comes to autoprobing :-( > > ne.c has its well-sorted list of addresses to probe at, and if you use > it as a "non-module", it will find the PCI cards, too. > > : The RealTek RTK8029 cards are _PCI_ so they must be probed, and hence > : the current driver cannot be used as a module. This should be documented. > > This is wrong; due to a decision of the author, ne.c will not auto-probe > for cards if used as a module. But you can always say something like > insmod ne.c io=0x6000 > and the module will find your PCI card.
The point here is that a PCI ne2000 is probable in a safe way. Normal NE2000 do not have a standard way to probe but a PCI one can be probe in a secure maner (A shell script can do it :-) ).
So a ne2000 should accept to probe only for PCI and continue with the current (unfortunate but not too bad) state of affair (not probing when used as a module).
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