Re: Installing with a DEC DE205 card...

["John J. Donohue" <jdonohue mcallen lib tx us>]

> I'm trying to install RedHat on a DIGITAL CELEBRIS 590, with a
> EtherWORKS DE205 netcard. The information i get from WinNT's diagnostigs,
> tells me the base address is 0x300 - 0x31f, and the irq is 5. It also
> says the memory window is 0xd0000 - 0xd7fff. When i try to install, i
> select EtherWORKS 3 as the net card, then choose specify options, and
> enter: "io=0x300-0x31f irq=5" - which the install program accepts (
          ^       !!!!!!     ^
> although it claims my card has a 2kb ram window at 0xc8000). But the
> problem is: not contact with the card. The send LED on the back of the
> card is off, and any request just times out. Do anyone know what the
> problem might be?

try "io=0x300 irq=5", the driver knows how wide the block is.
If it still doesn't work, try specifying the card in 
/etc/conf.modules
   alias eth0 ewrk3
   options ewrk3 io=0x300 irq=5
OR in
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules
   modprobe ewrk3 io=0x300 irq=5
and then use ifconfig to bring it up.