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Configuring non-PNP ISA Ethernet card

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Disciple of The Watch, Jan 1, 2007.

  1. Disciple of The Watch

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    So, my mother finally decided to get herself an Internet connection. That's the good part. The bad part is that her comp is made from salvaged pieces of old comps, and her most "recent" acquisition is an old ISA 10MB Ethernet card, which is *not* Plug and Play (more like Plug and Pray but that's another story), worst ever it's so old it still has a *coaxial* connector.

    Anyway... I know non-PNP ISA cards need a DMA, an IRQ and crap like that to be correctly configure in order to work. I checked in the BIOS, and IRQs 5, 10 and 15 are available, so I switched the jumper to be set to IRQ 10, and allocated IRQ 10 to an "ISA Resource" in the BIOS.

    What's left to do to get this old dinosaur to work properly?
     
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    1) Find model.
    2) Tell Windows to find new hardware.
    3) ???
    4) PROFIT!

    (Or that's how I handle those cards - Windows 2000 is surprisingly good at finding correct hardware settings.)
     
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  3. Disciple of The Watch

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    I did a fresh install of 2k since my mother was enough of a fool to use 56K Internet without a firewall nor an anti-virus, so I deemed better to level everything up and start anew.

    Anyways, after some f****** around with IRQs, DMA, resource allocation and crap like that, 2k detected it just fine, and it's up and running like a champ... despite being detected as a "NV-2000 Compatible card" or something like that. 2k indicates that is's a Novell.

    That was easy. Almost too easy. I always heard horror stories about non-Plug and Pray ISA. Oh well.
     
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