[wplug] Finding I/O for NIC card?

[Devin Lee Drew]

Russ Schneider wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Robert Coutch wrote:
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>>Is the card actually ISA or is it PCI ?
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> No, it's an old ISA on an old P200 that doesn't even have PCI slots.
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>>What distro are you using?
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> Debian Woody on that machine.
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Russ, what you need is the bootable dos utility floppy that goes with 
the card. You don't need dos, you just need this floppy, a x86 with a 
floppy drive and an open ISA slot to configure the card.

If your time is worth more than chump change / hour though, get yourself 
a pci mobo. IRQs are *not* fun to deal with. PnP sucks, but IRQ 
conflicts suck more. In my experience, mail lists aren't much help for 
IRQ conflicts / setup. An installfest would probably be a better place 
to get this beast running. But you'll need that configuration utility.

Devin