On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Timothy Lillicrap wrote:
> Does anyone know what it means when a network card is "hard strapped"????
> When I
> insmod ewrk3
> I get the following:
>
> eth0: DE204-AB at 0x200, h/w address 08:00:2b:97:c6:7e,
> is hard strapped.
>
> Does anyone know what this means???? I have searched the Ethernet howto, but
> is says nothing about this. It just tells me that I am infact using the right
> driver for my DE204 which is the ewrk3.o
>
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>
> Could someone tell me what's going on here, and perhaps point me to the
> ewrk3setup utility if it is really necassary.
>
>From the README on a DEC drivers disk I got a coon's age ago;
RESOLVING A BUS CONFLICT
------------------------
If you realize, before installing the EtherWORKS 3 TURBO controller card,
that any of these default settings will pose a system conflict, or if you
install the card and the system will not boot due to a system conflict,
you have the option to hardstrap the card. To hardstrap the card, insert
one or both of the jumpers found at the locations marked W1 and W2 on the
EtherWORKS 3 TURBO card. Hardstrapping the EtherWORKS 3 TURBO card requires
only that an I/O range is available. When hardstrapped, the EtherWORKS 3
TURBO
card does not take up any memory area or IRQ lines, thereby reducing the
chance of a bus conflict.
The following table details how the board will be set with one or both of
these jumpers installed:
I/O Range W2 W1
---------------- -- --
200h - 21Fh ON ON
280h - 29Fh OFF ON
EISA mode ON OFF
Normal operation OFF OFF
So, short answer is, remove the jumper blocks on the card marked w2 and w1
and you're probably in business. If you still need the setup.exe file you
can probably find the current version on the DEC (oops, COMPAQ) web site.
If you want the really ancient one I have, I can zip the drivers disk and
put it up for ftp, or file attach it, or something......
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