> > 1. if you have any jumpers on the board, read all the board maybe you find > a table with the jumpers Unfortunately there are no jumpers. > > 2. look at the biggest chip on the board and do internet searches with > substrings of the chip code. Chances are, you will find a DOS program for > setting up the IO and IRQ Do I really want to use a dos utility? This is of coarse related to the thread of linux and kids software, because the win machine is only for my kids. So the only reason I am trying to deal with monkeysoft if for kids games. > 2.1 alternatively try to insmod ne2k specifying ports between 0x280 and > 0x360 I think I was using variations of IO= I/O= i/o i/o= and with ranges of 0x300 and irq's like 2 9 and 5. I was getting frustrated so maybe I just need to use the correct syntax and thats that. I have a feeling that it is an obvious problem that I am overlooking. > > 3. run pnpdump from isapnp package and see what it discovers. then enable > PNP and ISAPNP in kernel (if you use 2.4) I did install the isapnp package but have yet to use it. If it was only a sound card I could work on it from work. Now you guys are contributing to me skipping work to go home and get this nic up. Thanks; really. -- whois microsoft.com