NIC with Debian-Linux

debian version 2.2 (potatoe)
PC 486DX
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I have a problem installing ly NIC....

manufacturer: SMC 8216T
It is an ISA-Card.
2 jumpers:
- 3 modes (IRQ,IO,ROM)
° SOFT
* 10,300,CC000
° 3,280,D0000
-2 modes (ROM)
* SOFT
° D8000
--> dont know what this is
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installed isapnp-tools
ran pnpdump gets "No board Found"

tried ne,ne2,tulip and all smc-drivers

allways getting "Device or Resource Busy...."

led on CARD for READ-data (Rx) flashes so it gets power from mobo


any suggestions? i am desperate......

try to set all jumpers to soft-mode. but i think it is too old for plug and play and they have their own configuration program.

if this is the case, then you need to set the card to fixed numbers. 10,300,cc000 looks ok. you need to tell that these resources are used by non-plug-and-pray-card (and thus are not available for pnp) in your cmos setup.

for old isa cards you need to pass the parameters to your driver in linux. like "insmod smcxxx.o irq=10 base=300 mem=cc000"

modinfo -p smcxxx will tell you all possible parameters.