Sun Jul  2 01:38:33 EST 1995

See also: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/jt/Linux/Wavelan.html


1. At present the driver autoprobes for a WaveLAN card only at I/O address
  0x390. The version of the card that I use (NCR) supports four I/O addresses
  (selectable via a pair of DIP switches).  If you want the driver to
  autoprobe a different subset of the four valid addresses then you will need
  to edit .../drivers/net/wavelan.c (near line 714) and change the
  initialisation of the `iobase[]' array.  Normally, I use a LILO
  configuration file directive to obviate the need for autoprobing entirely,
  a course of action I heartily recommend.

2. By default, the driver uses the Network ID (NWID) stored in the card's
  Parameter Storage Area (PSA).  However, the PSA NWID can be overridden by a
  value passed explicitly as the third numeric argument to LILO's "ether="
  directive, either  at the LILO prompt at boot time or within LILO's
  configuration file.
  For example, the following line from such a LILO configuration file would
  auto-configure the IRQ value, set the I/O base to 0x390 and set the NWID to
  0x4321, all on a WaveLAN card labelled "eth0":

       ..
       append  ="ether=0,0x390,0x4321,eth0"
       ..

3. The driver uses the IRQ stored in the card's PSA.
  To change this you will need to use the configuration/setup software that
  accompanies each WaveLAN device.  Yes, the driver should use the value passed
  in via LILO and it will, just as soon as I can work out why that part of the
  code doesn't work :-(.

4. If you encounter any problems send me some email.

Good luck,
Bruce Janson ([email protected])

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