Re: [RULE] does Slinky detect do ISA?

[C David Rigby]

A couple of options:

kudzu, the RedHat hardware detect & configuration utility, will be able 
to figure out some things, but not all.  The only way to know is to try. 
 A basic install of Slinky-RULE provides it, I believe (but I need to 
double-check).  Mandrake uses something similar called ldetect.

Kernel modules can often, but not always, determine the settings 
automatically using the command "modprobe" but you need to know which 
driver to try.

But a specific utility to determine the IRQ/IO/DMA settings for ISA 
devices in general?  I do not know of any.  Indeed, many early ISA 
devices cannot be probed - the devices were designed and built during 
the era when the expectation was that physical jumpers or switches on 
the cards would be set by a tech before installation.

For the old ISA 3Com cards, I was in the habit of creating a bootable 
DOS disk and using the DOS-based config utility provided by 3Com to 
probe and config the card once it was in a system.  It might work for 
some of the other NICs you mention, but it is pretty labor intensive, to 
be sure.

Sorry, that is about all I know on the subject.

CDR

drose wrote:
> 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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