Re: [RULE] does Slinky detect do ISA?

[drose]

I've got, like, 50 mixed cards.

A random chipset sample includes:

rtl8019AS
3com 8350
AT/LANTIC
Compex RL2k-988PA
SMC 83C690LJP
INTEL 201969-221

And my favourite, a 
UL0020 332AA23240400

wtf? Perhaps http://www.ul0020.com/support ?

What I'm after is NOT drivers, or network support.  All I need is some
software that runs around the system and figures out that there's a card
plugged into the bus, operating on 0x300, IRQ 12 or whatever.

What I've always (ie ten years) wondered is do you need to know what the
device is (ie load a driver) in order to accurately determine the
interrupt? Win9x can say "It's a 3Com xyz123 card on interrupt 0x300",
but I still have to play "guess and reboot" to get the IRQ figured out.

Any pointers to hardware detection would in fact be useful.



On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:27, C David Rigby wrote:
> Hi Drose,
>       IFAIK, detection of ISA cards depends on isa-pnp functionality being 
> available.  I do not have an ISA-only machine nor any ISA nics to test 
> with, so I can not definitively answer as to whether it should work or not.
> 
>       Can you tell us which ISA NICS you have?  If you do not know the type, 
> can you post to the list whatever is written on the cards?  Particularly 
> useful would be any strings of text that start with "FCC ID."
> 
> Thanks
> CDR
> 
> drose wrote:
> > Can anyone explain then why there's no mention of the NIC in the
> > generated report.txt?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 09:56, Ingo Lantschner wrote:
> > 
> >>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:59:16 +1100, drose <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I can't get Slinky detect to pick up any ISA cards.
> >>>
> >>>Is this expected behaviour, or is this something I'm doing wrong?
> >>>
> >>>Specifically, I have a few dozen ISA NICs I'd like to use.
> >>
> >>I had ISA-NICs (3C509 I think) working with Slinky-installed computers. We 
> >>had problems with the Transceiver-Type on COMBO-Cards, but this is 
> >>independent from the bus-type.
> >>
> >>Regards, Ingo.
> >>
> >>
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