also sprach Curtis Hogg (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:11:49PM -0700):
> > ifconfig tells you what? i/o addresses? that's news to me...
>
> It's done that for about as long as I can remember. At least a couple
> years.
diamond:~# uname -a [47]
Linux diamond 2.4.2 #1 Thu Feb 22 16:47:47 EST 2001 i586 unknown
diamond:~# lsmod | grep tulip [48]
tulip 31864 1 (autoclean)
diamond:~# grep eth0 /proc/ioports [49]
0240-025f : eth0
diamond:~# grep eth0 /proc/interrupts [50]
3: 515908252 XT-PIC eth0
diamond:~# /sbin/ifconfig --version [51]
net-tools 1.54
ifconfig 1.39 (1999-03-18)
diamond:~# /sbin/ifconfig [52]
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:4D:20:90
inet addr:130.58.82.235 Bcast:130.58.82.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::80:c84d:2090/10 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4414585 errors:1 dropped:88 overruns:0 frame:27
TX packets:898634 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:31 txqueuelen:100
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3856 Metric:1
RX packets:755154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:755154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
uhoh. something's wrong here...
> > besides 0x7000 is clearly out of range. i would argue that your
> > network card is at one of
>
> Your statement would arguably be correct if the card in question weren't
> PCI. the addresses you listed are correct for ISA cards. however, my Tulip
> based card is at IO 0x6000, and one of my rtl8139 cards at home is at
> 0xb400... PCI cards have a higher IO address range.
woops. i forgot about that for a second. mainly because i don't think i
ever had to specify anything of the io/irq form for a pci card... they
always worked out of the box, loading the driver straight up...
martin
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