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- Sun Jul 2 01:38:33 EST 1995
-
- 1. At present the driver autoprobes for a WaveLAN card only at I/O address 0x390.
- The version of the card that I use (NCR) supports four I/O addresses (selectable
- via a pair of DIP switches). If you want the driver to autoprobe a different
- subset of the four valid addresses then you will need to edit
- .../drivers/net/wavelan.c (near line 714) and change the initialisation of the
- `iobase[]' array. Normally, I use a LILO configuration file directive to
- obviate the need for autoprobing entirely, a course of action I heartily
- recommend.
-
- 2. By default, the driver uses the Network ID (NWID) stored in the card's Parameter
- Storage Area (PSA). However, the PSA NWID can be overridden by a value passed
- explicitly as the third numeric argument to LILO's "ether=" directive, either
- at the LILO prompt at boot time or within LILO's configuration file.
- For example, the following line from such a LILO configuration file would
- auto-configure the IRQ value, set the I/O base to 0x390 and set the NWID to
- 0x4321, all on a WaveLAN card labelled "eth0":
-
- ..
- append ="ether=0,0x390,0x4321,eth0"
- ..
-
- 3. The driver uses the IRQ stored in the card's PSA.
- To change this you will need to use the configuration/setup software that
- accompanies each WaveLAN device. Yes, the driver should use the value passed
- in via LILO and it will, just as soon as I can work out why that part of the
- code doesn't work :-(.
-
- 4. If you encounter any problems send me some email.
-
- Good luck,
- Bruce Janson (bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au)
-