1 Sun Jul 2 01:38:33 EST 1995
3 As the date above certify, this ``readme'' is mostly
4 obsolete. Please read release notes and change list in
5 driver/net/wavelan.p.h, and consult my web page at :
6 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wavelan.html
10 1. At present the driver autoprobes for a WaveLAN card only at I/O address
11 0x390. The version of the card that I use (NCR) supports four I/O addresses
12 (selectable via a pair of DIP switches). If you want the driver to
13 autoprobe a different subset of the four valid addresses then you will need
14 to edit .../drivers/net/wavelan.c (near line 714) and change the
15 initialisation of the `iobase[]' array. Normally, I use a LILO
16 configuration file directive to obviate the need for autoprobing entirely,
17 a course of action I heartily recommend.
19 2. By default, the driver uses the Network ID (NWID) stored in the card's
20 Parameter Storage Area (PSA). However, the PSA NWID can be overridden by a
21 value passed explicitly as the third numeric argument to LILO's "ether="
22 directive, either at the LILO prompt at boot time or within LILO's
24 For example, the following line from such a LILO configuration file would
25 auto-configure the IRQ value, set the I/O base to 0x390 and set the NWID to
26 0x4321, all on a WaveLAN card labelled "eth0":
29 append ="ether=0,0x390,0x4321,eth0"
32 3. The driver uses the IRQ stored in the card's PSA.
33 To change this you will need to use the configuration/setup software that
34 accompanies each WaveLAN device. Yes, the driver should use the value passed
35 in via LILO and it will, just as soon as I can work out why that part of the
36 code doesn't work :-(.
38 4. If you encounter any problems send me some email.
41 Bruce Janson (bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au)