[COLUG] Dead coyote

[Peter Kukla]

The NE2000 NIC I have is an ISA "Linksys Ether16 LAN
Card."  I haven't located the appropriate software
anywhere on the 'net yet, but maybe I'm missing it. 
If you have the appropriate floppy or know where to
download it, I'd be happy to get it so I could avoid
throwing away perfectly good hardware.

I may just go with the Netgear router in the short
term.  The next 3 weeks are going to be chaos, so
"fast" trumps my preferred path of "linux solution."

Thanks for the quick response.


-peter


--- Jim <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> Peter Kukla wrote:
> 
> > My ancient coyote firewall box has finally died. 
> I
> > can't complain too much, since I got a lot of use
> out
> > of that 486.
> 
> > ... the NE2000 clone doesn't work.
> 
> How about an upgrade to a real NE2000? 
> 
> > Since I no longer have the floppies that came with
> the
> > card, I cannot reset the interrupt (15) and base
> > address (0x320) to see whether that might resolve
> the
> > issue.
> 
> I _might_ be able to find that floppy. 
> 
> > Any suggestions on a good migration path to
> something
> > that will actually serve my purposes without
> costing
> > me several additional hours of time?
> 
> $25 bucks at Microcenter will get you a refurbished
> Netgear 
> wireless "router". 
> 
> I think I have a set of two other NICs and matching
> Coyote floppy also. 
> You could just plug them and boot the floppy. 
> 
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