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To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: BICC (C-LANCE) DE 205 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Dec 1995 11:49:18 +0100."
             <199512051049.LAA17872@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> 
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In  <199512051049.LAA17872@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> , you wrote:

> Booting a 2.1.0 system I get 
> [...]
> le0 not found at 0x300
> lnc0 not found at 0x280
> lnc1 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 drq 0 on isa
> lnc1: BICC (C-LANCE) Ethernet controller, address 00:00:40:01:00:00
> 
> 
> Later I'm trying to start the interface and get
> 
> lnc1: Initialisation failed
> 
> This is a ASUS PCI/I P54?? board. The Lance controller is a DEC
> DE 205 Etherworks III which works fine under Win95%/NT in that
> very same box.
> 
> Any clues? The ethernet address looks a bit strange, doesn't it?

The DE205 is not LANCE based, it is a DEC private chip called the LeMAC.
You must use the le driver to access it (and it obviosly didn't find it).
What are the settings being used under Windows NT?

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