Need driver for a ISA AT/LANTIC DP83905 Ethernet Card

Schwaba · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 47

hi

I need a Driver for my AT/LANTIC DP83905 ISA Ethernet Card. I can't find a driver for it in the Kernel (2.6.27).

thanks
Schwaba

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject:

Schwaba,

Your DP83905 can be configured to be an ne2000 or a wd8013 network card and the ne2000 driver is there.
Making ISA cards of all sorts work is a challenge. ISA Plug and Pray cards are a mixed blessing under linux.
You are best to avoid the PnP - turn it off and set I/O, DMA and IRQ parameters in the hardware manually, using jumpers of the card is not PnP or the vendors configuration program if it is.
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eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject:

I've found that ISA cards that properly implement plug and pray are pretty good in Linux as long as the BIOS is configured properly as well.

The truely ugly ones are the ones that require a software tool to configure, which are invariably lost at some point. My GVC 2002 16-bit ISA NE2K clone fits this issue... not PnP compatible and require an external driver to program IO/DMA/IRQ... Without this tool, and without opening up the address/irq/dma ranges in BIOS makes it very hard to guess and configure these kinds of boards.

Though it requires the machine taken apart, well-documented jumpers are good... then again, PCI PnP is (usually) better...
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