Getting a NIC going under Debian.....

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:58:28PM +1100, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
> G'Day,
> 
> I am still trying to create a boot disk for Debian ;-) (The box in question
> only has a floppy drive, some RAM and a NIC in it). What has been holding me
> back is determining what NIC I have. After hours of searching I have finally
> determined with the help of:
> 
> http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/tools/ddetect/Attic/ethdetect.h?logso
> rt=date&only_with_tag=MAIN&annotate=1.1&sortby=date&hideattic=1&search=None&
> hidecvsroot=1&diff_format=u
> 
> that it is a "AXE2201" }, /* Xerox Corporation : SN2000. So now the question
> is. How do I go about building a boot floppy that will support the NIC. I
> suspect I will need to use isapnp as well. Any pointers?

Looks like it uses the ordinary ne.o driver, in which case any of the
default images will do it. Unfortunatly it seems to be an ISA card in which
case you'll need to know the IO address.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
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