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- The address and IRQ used by the 3c505 driver can be configured at boot
- time by typing 'ether=eth0,15,0x300' (replace IRQ and base address with
- ones that tell how your adapter is jumpered).
-
- If no base address is given at the boot time, the driver will look for
- a 3c505 adapter at addresses 0x300, 0x280 and 0x310 in this order,
- possibly messing up any other hardware residing in these addresses.
- If a base address is given, it will be verified.
-
- There's two #defines one may need to change in the 3c505 driver:
- ELP_KERNEL_TYPE
- this exists just to adapt the driver with pretty wide range of kernels.
- See 3c505.c for exact information.
-
- ELP_NEED_HARD_RESET
- some DOS drivers seem to get the adapter to some irrecoverable state
- if the machine is "warm booted" from DOS to Linux. If you experience
- problems when warm booting, but "cold boot" works, #defining this
- to 1 may help.
-
-
- Known problems:
- when 'ifconfig up' is run for the first time after bootup, the driver
- complains:
- elp_interrupt(): irq 15 for unknown device.
- ^^
- There should be the IRQ the ELPlus adapter is using. IF the IRQ doesn't
- match, something is seriously wrong.
-
- Authors:
- The driver is mainly written by Craig Southeren, email c/o
- <geoffw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>.
- Parts of the driver (adapting the driver to 1.1.4+ kernels,
- IRQ/address detection, minor changes) and this (lousy) 'readme'
- by Juha Laiho <jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi>.
-