Hi Folks, I'm puzzled! Can someone give me a hint?
I've had an (ancient) NE2000 clone which plugs into an ISA (not PCI) slot running happily on a very old machine (ca 1995) for years.
On SuSe 5.2 I had it set up to use module ne.o, with options "io=0x300".
Now that machine's PSU has failed, so I moved the hard drives etc. to another box (of more recent vintage ... ).
Now it fails to find the card and/or any IRQ line when given 0x300.
I've removed all other ISA cards from that box to make sure there are no conflicts.
I've tried this not only with the "native "SuSE-5.2 off the hard drive, but also booting with tomsrtbt ("Linux on a Floppy" and with Ubuntu live CDs, in all cases without success.
I'm puzzled that it works one the one box but (with the same system and settings) fails on another. Is there a possibility that ISA IO addresses and IRQs can change between different motherboards?
With thanks, Ted.