From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Don Message-ID: <8f6cf824.0204081049.42805545@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <3CAFFFB0.EF271F3A@bellatlantic.net> Subject: [9fans] Re: Booting with a NE2000 clone hangs Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:17:27 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7471586c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Holly Olson wrote in message news:<3CAFFFB0.EF271F3A@bellatlantic.net>... > Any ideas are suggestions where I may be messing up? Well, I dont quite think its you. I've had a couple experiences with ne2000 clones where they boot and the OS actually _sees_ the card, yet, the card cannot even be probed or written to/ read from. (i.e. aux/pcmcia '#y/pcmXattr or writing to the data file). The issue seems to be conflicting IRQ assignments in the BIOS. My solution was to boot to the laptop's configuration session and disable possibly conflicting devices. For me its usually audio, which is cool since I don't use it except on the CPU server. Unfortunately, for ne2000 clones, attempting to adjust the IRQ via plan9.ini seems to make the boot code ignore the card altogether (at least in my experience :). Good luck & let me know if u find another solution, Don north_@www.7f.no-ip.com http://www.7f.no-ip.info/