Re: RT Linux - Networking

Ian Wright wrote:

> From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@...>
>
> Thanks Jon,
>
> I tried the windows thing and it seems both cards are duff. It looks as
> though what I thought was an expansion socket probably originally contained
> an important IC which someone has removed before I acquired the cards so
> they are heading for the scrap box.

A 28-pin IC socket? That is the boot prom. Yes, if the chip was in there,
you'd get a message when the system BIOS executed the board's BIOS
extension. That message could be so short and cryptic as to be no help,
or it could identify the board pretty clearly. Since it isn't there, the board has
NO BIOS extension, and all control is through a separate driver.

Now, if these are old, they are certainly not plug-n-play, so the system has
no way to reserve I/O, IRQ and DMA channels for it, so you'd have to
guess what resources it needs and make the plug-n-play system BIOS
leave those resources open. Without doing that, the Windows add hardware
search routines can't even sense the board. Without documantation,
it's pretty hard.

Jon